48.Quotes On Fiction:Laughter:Fashion:Manners:Perfection:Reputation:Growth-Part 6
"Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.." -Doris Lessing-
"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.".-Mark Twain-
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.".-Virginia Woolf-
"The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.".-David Herbert Lawrence
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"The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only - not from its privileged classes.".-Mark Twain-
"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew;the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.".-Anita Brookner-
"A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.".-Dwight L. Moody-
"White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.".-Nikki Giovanni-
"Laughter - An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.".-Ambrose Bierce-
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"Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.".-Laurence J. Peter-
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.".-Buddha-
"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.".-George Santayana-
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners;it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness;a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.".-Charles Simmons-
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"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.".-Laurence Sterne-
"Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot.".-C. J. Weber-
"Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection;no more.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"Perfection is attained by slow degrees;she requires the hand of time.".-Voltaire-
"Concealed talent brings no reputation.".-Desiderius Erasmus-
"Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.".-Lawana Blackwell-
"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.".-Voltaire-
"Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance;beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.".-Harold Macmillan-
"The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation - must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.".-Lyndon B. Johnson-
"I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive li".-William Wordsworth-
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"There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.".-Booker T. Washington-
"A teacher affects eternity;he can never tell where his influence stops.".-Henry Brooks Adams-
"Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it;for when we fail, our pride supports;when we succeed;it betrays us.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
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