Quote by Joseph Heller
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was th

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. – Joseph Heller

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Destiny is a good thing to accept when its going your way. When it isnt, dont call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck. – Joseph Heller

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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. – Joseph Heller

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Im shopping around for something to do that no one will like. – Jerry Garcia

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I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know. – Epicurus

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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). – David Mamet

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True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. – Lord Mansfield

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By and by… there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. – Stendhal

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Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt. – Jack Nicklaus, why he tees his ball high

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The foundation of family – thats where it all begins for me. – Faith Hill

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