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Insist on yourself; never imitate.
Topic: Imitation
Thy voice Is a celestial melody.
Topic: Voice
Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.
Topic: Enjoyment
Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.
Topic: Betrayal
Author: Linda Talley
The book that he has made renders its author this service in return, that so long as the book survives, its author remains immortal and cannot die.
Topic: Authorship
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self importance.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.
Author: Nick Mirov
I can teach my cat any trick he wants to do!
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.
Topic: Hell
Author: Cicero
The truth won't be told by the few who know.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
How to win friends and influence people.
Topic: Friendship
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
Author: Gene Wolfe
My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs.
Topic: Advice
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Author: James Barrie
A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.
Un gros serpent mordit Aurele. Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva? Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle! Ce fut le serpent qui creva.
Topic: Poison
He decried that any would add another hue unto the rainbow yet we would ope to saffron and jade and pink and rose and olive and tan scarlet and indigos ** *the quote is from Shakespeare's King John.
Topic: Variety
Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose.
Topic: Quarrel
Author: John Gay
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area- crime, education, housing, race relations- the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.