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Max Eastman: Dogs laugh, but...

Max Eastman: Dogs laugh, but...

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh...

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Max Eastman: Laughter is, after...

Max Eastman: Laughter is, after...

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Source:...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: Nature creates ability;...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: Nature creates ability;...

Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Anais Nin: We don't see...

Anais Nin: We don't see...

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Ayn Rand: Creation comes before...

Ayn Rand: Creation comes before...

Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.

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Jessamyn West: Memory is a...

Jessamyn West: Memory is a...

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to...

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Ernest J Gaines: Sometimes you got...

Ernest J Gaines: Sometimes you got...

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for...

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Alvin Toffler: Man has a...

Alvin Toffler: Man has a...

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future...

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Kenneth Grahame: As a rule,...

Kenneth Grahame: As a rule,...

As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that...

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Francois Rabelais: When I drink,...

Francois Rabelais: When I drink,...

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Rudolph Fisher: Angels rush in...

Rudolph Fisher: Angels rush in...

Angels rush in when fools are almost dead.

Source: Blades of Steel, 1927.
--...

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Anthony Hope: Bourgeois,' I observed,...

Anthony Hope: Bourgeois,' I observed,...

'Bourgeois,' I observed, 'is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to what...

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John Mortimer: The freedom to...

John Mortimer: The freedom to...

The freedom to make a fortune on the Stock Exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of...

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Eden Phillpotts: The universe is...

Eden Phillpotts: The universe is...

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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Sylvia Plath: I shut my...

Sylvia Plath: I shut my...

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.


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Judith Viorst: Superstition is foolish,...

Judith Viorst: Superstition is foolish,...

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -- but how much does it cost you to knock on...

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Boris Pasternak: Immensely grateful, touched,...

Boris Pasternak: Immensely grateful, touched,...

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Source: Telegram accepting...

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George Meredith: Ah, what a...

George Meredith: Ah, what a...

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul
When hot for certainties in this our life!


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P B S Pinchback: I am groping...

P B S Pinchback: I am groping...

I am groping about through this American forest of prejudice and proscription, determined to find some form of...

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Andrew Young: If you're a...

Andrew Young: If you're a...

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense...

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