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Upton Sinclair


It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Dan Rather


And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, chapter 6


When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

George Bernard Shaw


The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.

Gaius Valerius Catullus, Poem 85


I love and I hate. How can this be, you ask in vain. I know not, but I feel it to be so and am wracked with pain.

Miguel de Cervantes, Exemplary Novels (1613)


I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

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Yale Book of Quotations presents itself as the new standard (The Kansas City Star)

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:21:02 GMT
Apparently the Show Me State is also the Quote Me State. In the recently released Yale Book of Quotations, a 1,067-page tome its editor touts as the most accurate and comprehensive of its kind, Missourians are quoted more than people from any other state.

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Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:05:01 GMT
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Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:31:00 GMT
Washington Post - If I were directing the U.S. strategic information campaign, I would spend my dollars on collecting photos of the Muslim innocents al-Qaeda has killed and putting below them quotations from the Koran ...

Quotes about Reach

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:17:00 +0000
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. - Helen Keller
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love’s reach. - Margaret Cho
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