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Jerry Stiller: My father and...

Jerry Stiller: My father and...

My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their...

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Billie Holiday: You can't copy...

Billie Holiday: You can't copy...

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two...

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Robert Orben: I understand the...

Robert Orben: I understand the...

I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it -- after all, they've...

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Count Basie: It's the way...

Count Basie: It's the way...

It's the way you play that makes it . . . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're...

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Bob Hope: Whenever I play...

Bob Hope: Whenever I play...

Whenever I play with Gerald Ford, I try to make it a foursome the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith...

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Benjamin Franklin: Ill customs and...

Benjamin Franklin: Ill customs and...

Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Benjamin Franklin: Drive thy business...

Benjamin Franklin: Drive thy business...

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Source: In

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G C Lichtenberg: People who never...

G C Lichtenberg: People who never...

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

Source:...

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G C Lichtenberg: To err is...

G C Lichtenberg: To err is...

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do...

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Samuel Beckett: Nothing matters but...

Samuel Beckett: Nothing matters but...

Nothing matters but writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile. . . a stain upon the...

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Scott Alexander: Making money is...

Scott Alexander: Making money is...

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: How fares it...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: How fares it...

How fares it with the happy dead?

Source: In Memoriam, 44 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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Walt Whitman: Let that which...

Walt Whitman: Let that which...

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean...

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Francis Quarles: Read not books...

Francis Quarles: Read not books...

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

Source: In Poor...

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Robert Frost: If you don't...

Robert Frost: If you don't...

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

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I have often...

I have often...

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of...

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My darkness has...

My darkness has...

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and...

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Man becomes man...

Man becomes man...

Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.

Source:...

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Society lives by...

Society lives by...

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

Source: In

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When the book...

When the book...

When the book comes out it may hurt you -- but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you...

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