47.Quotes On Fiction:Laughter:Fashion:Manners:Perfection:Reputation:Growth-Part 5
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"Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.." -Coleman Dowell-
"Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.".-Lord George Byron-
"The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality;by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, ".-Vance Palmer-
"I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine;which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.".-Captain J. G. Stedman
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"By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.".-Mark Twain-
"Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus hair was like lamb's wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he came to any of these churches we talking bout he'd have to have it conked before anybody paid him any attention. The last thing niggers want to think about they God is that his hair kinky.".-Alice Walker-
"All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.".-David Livingstone-
"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires;but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love;and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.".-Alice Meynell-
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"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.".-Karl Barth-
"The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.".-Oliver Goldsmith-
"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.".-Benjamin Disraeli-
"I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.".-Logan Pearsall Smith-
"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.".-Benjamin Franklin-
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"Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.".-Horace Mann-
"Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.".-Bishop Robert South-
"I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher acheivement.".-Lois McMaster Bujold-
"A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.".-Pir Vilayat Khan-
"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.".-Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-
"Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.".-Laurence J. Peter-
"There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears;but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed,".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.".-George Shinn-
"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.".-Lewis Thomas-
"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.".-William Pitt-
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"Bad philosophers may have a certain influence;good philosophers, never.".-Bertrand Russell-
"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.".-Don Marquis-
"Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
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