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“It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic”


Winston Churchill

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"A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned."

George Bernard Shaw

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Regret is like getting high. You cannot get unstoned as you cannot unsay or undo anything you have already said or done.

Widow Black

*Sorry but the King stumped me big time...once again...hope this takes - if not kudos for who comes up with 'unstoned' in another quote.

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"For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm"

Voltaire

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Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

Randy K. Milholland,

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"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes."

Confucius

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire (1694 - 1778)

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"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."

Aesop

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"Nothing but this! yes, as much love in rhyme As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper, Writ o' both sides the leaf, margent and all, That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name"

William Shakespeare

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I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)