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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, a

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. – Fran Lebowitz

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I must take issue with the term a mere child, for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. – Fran Lebowitz

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Experience
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Romantic love is mental illness. But its a pleasurable one. Its a drug. It distorts reality, and thats the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. – Fran Lebowitz

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Love
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It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. – Sun Tzu

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Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. – Helen Keller

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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. – Martha Graham

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A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. – Mary Kay Ash

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It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. – David Ormsby Gore

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The poetry of a given age teaches us less what it has, than what it wants and what it loves. It is a living medal, where the concavities in the die are transformed into convexities on the bronze or gold. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Overheard at a gravesite: “And they all said ‘I’m sorry for your loss,’ as if you were someone who could ever be taken from me.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. – Victor Hugo

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