H. L. Mencken

Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

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Jack Benny

A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.

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Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

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George Eliot

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.

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Gilda Radner

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.

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Shana Alexander

A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

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Sir Winston Churchill

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'

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Mary Kay Utech

It's not a problem that we have a problem. It's a problem if we don't deal with the problem.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

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Hosea Ballou

Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

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Ben Bova

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

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Chaucer

There's never a new fashion but it's old.

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