“ We must overcome the notion that we must be regular...it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. ”
- Uta Hagen- Copy
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“ And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ”
- Angelique Arnauld- Copy
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“ Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. ”
- William Westmoreland- Copy
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“ Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
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“ The public! the public! how many fools does it require to make the public? ”
- Thomas Chalmers- Copy
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“ There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. ”
- Katharine Whitehorn- Copy
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“ America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization. ”
- Clarence Darrow- Copy
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“ The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ”
- Charles Kuralt- Copy
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“ Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. ”
- John Lahr- Copy
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“ The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process. ”
- George Gallup- Copy
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“ Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ In recent years, China and Canada have had quite some discussions about human rights on the basis of mutual respect,... We affirm this constructive approach to human rights. ”
- Hu Jintao- Copy
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“ The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. ”
- Pope John XXIII- Copy
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“ Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys. ”
- Dick Cheney- Copy
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“ If advertising had a little more respect for the public, the public would have a lot more respect for advertising. ”
- James Randolph Adams- Copy
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“ Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality. ”
- Eugene Ionesco- Copy
- 3.6K
“ The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 677
“ Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 794
“ I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion. ”
- Clarence Darrow- Copy
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