One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good. ~George Archer
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Vino Veritas) ~Pliny the Elder
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
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We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. ~Sigmund Freud
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. ~Laozi
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I try to work every day, even when I am not motivated. Ritual is very important to me. ~Mel Ramos
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. ~Giuseppe Garibaldi
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To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
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In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. ~David Morse
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for. ~Brian Tracy
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I am horrible at remembering names, embarrassingly bad. ~Sam Trammell
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When sleeping women wake, mountains move. ~African Proverb
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
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I dream about people who do not need to have sex to know they love each other. ~Carol Rifka Brunt
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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. ~Robert Edison Fulton
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No social ties can be formed in the absence of alcohol. ~Chinese Proverb
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