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William Ralph Inge:

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

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Moss Hart:

Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.

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Anne Rice:

The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

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Euripides:

Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the leaves.

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Rex Stout:

If you eat the apple before it’s ripe, your only reward is a bellyache.

Stout, Rex, The League of Frightened Men (New York: Bantam, 1992), p. 124.

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Sophie Tucker:

Keep breathing.

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Mark Twain:

New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

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Ernest Hemingway:

There is no finish to a war.

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Studs Terkel:

Today, more and more, because of the nature of the press and TV and radio, celebrityhood has taken over, and trivia takes over.

Afterthought:

He died almost a decade ago. One wonders what he would say today.

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Stendhal:

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

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Sinclair Lewis:

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

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Franklin Pierce Adams:

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

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E. B. White:

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.

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Barack Obama:

Ultimately, this is about all of us. We are not asked to perform the heroism of 15-year-old Zaevion Dobson from Tennessee, who was killed before Christmas while shielding his friends from gunfire. … But we must find the courage and the will to mobilize, organize and do what a strong, sensible country does in response to a crisis like this one.

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Blaise Pascal:

The world is satisfied with words: few care to dive beneath the surface.

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Rex Stout:

War doesn’t mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

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Logan Pearsall Smith:

A virtuous king is a king who has shirked his proper function — to embody for his subjects an ideal of illustrious misbehaviour absolutely beyond their reach.

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Anne Sullivan:

It’s queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

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Friedrich Schiller:

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

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Nora Ephron:

That’s the truest sign of insanity — insane people are always sure they’re just fine. It’s only the sane people who are willing to admit they’re crazy.

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