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"I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.." -Henry David Thoreau-
"Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long;even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.".-Louisa May Alcott-
"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.".-Dean William R. Inge-
"Self-love seems so often unrequited.".-Anthony Powell
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"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness;to an opponent, tolerance;to a friend, your heart;to your child, a good example;to a father, deference;to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you;to yourself, respect;to all men, charity.".-Francis Maitland Balfour-
"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.".-Mark Twain-
"There are times when sorrow seems to be the only truth.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change.".-Frank Lloyd Wright-
"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.".-Anne Frank-
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"That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys;as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.".-Anita Loos-
"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.".-Leona Helmsley-
"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.".-Oscar Wilde-
"You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.".-Frank Zappa-
"The legs are the wheels of creativity.".-Albert Einstein-
"Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.".-Florence King-
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"It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.".-Lillian Hellman-
"Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness;and there was never a prince to fetch her back ".-Ben Hecht-
"Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.".-Orson Welles-
"Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.".-Henry Drummond-
"Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.".-Bernard M. Baruch-
"Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated;the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.".-Oscar Wilde-
"A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.".-Karl Marx-
"Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.".-B. C. Forbes-
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.".-Phyllis Bottome-
"Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.".-Anthony Trollope-
"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.".-Mark Twain-
"Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.".-Diana Princess of Wales-
"Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.".-Bernard M. Baruch-
"Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
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"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.." -Henry Kissinger-
"The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.".-Mark Twain-
"It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"Our first and last love is... self-love.".-Christian Nevell Bovee
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"A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides;they are not keeping anything back;there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.".-Henrik Ibsen-
"What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.".-Mark Twain-
"We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.".-Camille Paglia-
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"Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.".-Ogden Nash-
"There is properly no history;only biography.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"You can't be a Real Country unless you have a Beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a Beer.".-Frank Zappa-
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.".-Albert Einstein-
"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything.".-George Lois-
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"Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.".-Liz Smith-
"We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.".-David Mamet-
"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.".-Oscar Levant-
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.".-Henry Ford-
"To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked;but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no sh".-Captain J. G. Stedman-
"The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.".-A. J. P. Taylor-
"About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.".-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.-
"Man needs difficulties;they are necessary for health.".-Carl Gustav Jung-
"There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.".-Helen Keller-
"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality;they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.".-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison-
"Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.".-Michael Korda-
"I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties.".-Diana Princess of Wales-
"When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings;when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.".-Buddha-
"I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.".-Henry J. Kaiser-
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"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.." -Henry Kissinger-
"Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.".-Oliver Goldsmith-
"But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.".-Herman Melville-
"Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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"Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness;to an opponent, tolerance;to a friend, your heart;to your child, a good example;to a father, deference;to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you;to yourself, respect;to all men.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real ''horror vacuum.''".-August Strindberg-
"Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.".-Oscar Wilde-
"The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.".-Hosea Ballou-
"Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.".-Carl Schurz-
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"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.".-Olin Miller-
"A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal succes.".-William B. Yeats-
"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellency becomes a reality.".-Joe Paterno-
"Frugality without creativity is deprivation.".-Amy Dacyczyn-
"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.".-Nadine Gordimer-
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"Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.".-Dorothy Parker-
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.".-B. C. Forbes-
"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.".-Les Brown-
"That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.".-Charles Bukowski-
"Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.".-Adlai E. Stevenson-
"Communism is like one big phone company.".-Lenny Bruce-
"To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.".-Winston Churchill-
"The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than else".-Henry James-
"Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.".-Quentin Crisp-
"Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.".-George Santayana-
"Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart;never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true;and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while ".-Henry van Dyke-
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"Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born.." -Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.".-Wyndham Lewis-
"Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.".-Kahlil Gibran-
"What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received;it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"The cure for sorrow is to learn something.".-Barbara Sher-
"Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.".-Publilius Syrus-
"Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars.".-Leo Tolstoy-
"Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.".-Cecil B. De Mille-
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"In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes;like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.".-Anita Brookner-
"Good conversation unrolls itself like the spring or like the dawn.".-William B. Yeats-
"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.".-Kareem Abdul-Jabbar-
"Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.".-Arianna Stassinopoulos-
"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with it apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.".-Norman Podhoretz-
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"Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.".-Oscar Wilde-
"I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.".-Dorothy Parker-
"Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.".-Barbara Sher-
"When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.".-Les Brown-
"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.".-Alexander Solzhenitsyn-
"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.".-Nelson Mandela-
"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.".-Charles Haddon Spurgeon-
"One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.".-Alan Lakein-
"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.".-Kahlil Gibran-
"It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.".-Camille Paglia-
"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek;your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.".-Virginia Woolf-
"And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?".-Henry Miller-
"No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.".-Charles Haddon Spurgeon-
"I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.".-Imelda Marcos-
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