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Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

-Charles Dickens (from Nicholas Nickleby)

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“Sin is the charcoal placed upon it, which burns the mind; the tongs are anxiety and worry. ”


Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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(does verse count as a quote?)

Isabel, Isabel, didn’t worry,
Isabel didn’t scream or scurry.
She washed her hands and she straightened her hair up,
Then Isabel quietly ate the bear up.

-Ogden Nash

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yeah it counts

"Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died."

Steven Wright

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"Since Cleopatra died,
I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods
Detest my baseness."


William Shakespeare

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"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness."

Leon Trotsky

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Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

Milan Kundera

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"To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."

Bruce Lee

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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - )

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"On a strawberry sundae of a day, all daisies and June sun and pastoral posing by world leaders on the Lancaster House lawn."

john vinocur

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Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

-Charles Schulz

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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )

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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat…. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

-Charlie Chaplin

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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.

Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny

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The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.

Edward Gibbon

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"May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown."

Homer

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Some for renown on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Edward Young

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Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Ernest Bramah

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Henri IV’s feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation.

-Aldous Huxley

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A soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth.

William Shakespeare

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Okay...on with the game...the last word posted was: Hands

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"Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away."

Sophocles

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"No problem is too big to run away from."

Charles M. Schulz

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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)

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"Where flowers bloom so does hope."

Lady Bird Johnson

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Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart,
And you'll never walk alone.

Oscar Hammerstein II

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"We live at the level of our language.
Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore.
All you have to do to educate a child is leave them alone and teach them to read.
The rest is brainwashing."

Ellen Gilcrist

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"I offer images- I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached- like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors, we can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free. Maybe primitive people have less bullsh*t to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything- not just wealth. All the bullsh*t that he's been taught- all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that."

Jim Morrison

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Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge is pain.

-Federico Fellini

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"Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain."

Lord Alfred Tennyson

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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.


William Penn

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The crown of literature is poetry.

-Somerset Maugham

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"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

Charles Baudelaire

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"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye."

Buddha

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Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.

David Letterman (1947 - )

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Leonardo da Vinci

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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

Stephen Hawking (1942 - )

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"Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is."

Blaise Pascal

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Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet

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"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."

Ian Fleming

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"A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."

Mahatma Gandhi