Jay Leno

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divine...

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Bethania McKenstry

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Saki

"Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabout...

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Doug Larson

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the lock...

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Hobart Brown

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J. W. Schopf

"For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scu...

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Arthur C. Clarke

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Bruce Grocott

"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselve...

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J. Frank Dobie

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Bertolt Brecht

"Why be a man when you can be a succes...

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anythin...

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Doris Day

"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of i...

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Tom Stoppard

"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturit...

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Douglas Adams

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to b...

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Don Marquis

"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the eart...

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Evan Esar

"Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothin...

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Frank Lloyd Wright

"The truth is more important than the fact...

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Robert Benchley

"Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless peopl...

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Ron Nesen

"Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified sourc...

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George Orwell

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out in...

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Robert Redford

"If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercede...

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Woody Allen

"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to m...

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Jerome K. Jerome

"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to d...

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J. R. R. Tolkien

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserv...

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John H. Patterson

"An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decide...

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Groucho Marx

"Go, and never darken my towels agai...

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Yogi Berra

"You can observe a lot just by watchin...

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