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Joseph Heller: Hungry Joe collected...

Joseph Heller: Hungry Joe collected...

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger...

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Joseph Heller: Peace on earth...

Joseph Heller: Peace on earth...

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

Source: Good as...

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Jessamyn West: If you want...

Jessamyn West: If you want...

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

Source: In The...

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Jessamyn West: Delay breeds fear....

Jessamyn West: Delay breeds fear....

Delay breeds fear.

Source: The Life I Really Lived, 1975
-- Jessamyn West, (Jul...

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Jessamyn West: Nothing is so...

Jessamyn West: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Source: The Life I Really Lived,...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Source: Quoted in:...

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Emile Zola: I am little...

Emile Zola: I am little...

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life,...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: The temptation to...

Arthur Conan Doyle: The temptation to...

The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our...

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Konrad Lorenz: Barking dogs may...

Konrad Lorenz: Barking dogs may...

Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

Source: In...

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Henry Brooks Adams: As for America,...

Henry Brooks Adams: As for America,...

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable,...

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Nathan Huggins: . . ....

Nathan Huggins: . . ....

. . . touching at last, the one who through superhuman power and character had pulled together the people in the birth...

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Jean Toomer: Most novices picture...

Jean Toomer: Most novices picture...

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few...

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Nora Ephron: When you have...

Nora Ephron: When you have...

When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different...

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Nora Ephron: With any child...

Nora Ephron: With any child...

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the...

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Charles Kingsley: He was one...

Charles Kingsley: He was one...

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use...

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George Steiner: I owe everything...

George Steiner: I owe everything...

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry...

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George S Patton: You need to...

George S Patton: You need to...

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

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Chuck Yeager: You don't concentrate...

Chuck Yeager: You don't concentrate...

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from...

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Stonewall Jackson: If officers desire...

Stonewall Jackson: If officers desire...

If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to...

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T E Lawrence: There could be...

T E Lawrence: There could be...

There could be no honor is sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

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