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Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? - The Color Purple, 1982. (Quote by - Alice Walker)

I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'. (Quote by - Hilaire Bellock)

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it. (Quote by - Rex Harrison)

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)

I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is--I could be just as proud for half the money. (Quote by - Arthur Godfrey)

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. (Quote by - Claude Bernard)

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. (Quote by - William Bernbach)

There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to be vigilant. (Quote by - Ralph L. Woods)

I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. (Quote by - Geoffrey C. Ward)

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.(Quote by - Sir Arthur Eddington)

A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing by it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge. (Quote by - George Herbert)

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness. (Quote by - Chamfort)

This book fills a much-needed gap. (Quote by - Moses Hadas)

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself. (Quote by - Henry Kissinger)

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. (Quote by - Eden Phillpotts)

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. (Quote by - Alan Saporta)

At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the moon, to stare up. I want to be looking at them when they come Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots. I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces. Now they are nothing, they are not even babies. I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods. They will wonder if I was important. (Quote by - Sylvia Plath)

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. (Quote by - Georges Pompidou)

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contemporary theory... (Quote by - A. A. Blasov)

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. (Quote by - Josh Billings)

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. (Quote by - Frank Lloyd Wright)

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