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  • My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.
        Britney Spears   Best?
  • There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
        Christopher Morley   Best?
  • When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
        Marie de Sevigne   Best?
  • It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.
        Man Ray   Best?
  • A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
        Salman Rushdie   Best?
  • The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
        Augustine   Best?
  • The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.
        Barbara De Angelis   Best?
  • Always be aware of any helpful item that weighs less than it's operating manual.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • Live always in the best company when you read.
        Sydney Smith   Best?
  • Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.
        Scott Adams   Best?
  • I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.
        Shirley Chisholm   Best?
  • If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run— Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—you'll be a Man, my son!
        Rudyard Kipling   Best?
  • Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.
        Malcolm Forbes   Best?
  • The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
        Robert Fulghum   Best?
  • Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
        e. e. cummings   Best?
  • The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
        Ellen Glasgow   Best?
  • The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
        P. G. Wodehouse   Best?
  • Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Strain every nerve to gain your point.
        Cicero   Best?
  • A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
        Ogden Nash   Best?
  • He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
        Dr. Isaac Barrow   Best?
  • Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
        Fran Leibowitz   Best?
  • America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
        Laurence J. Peter   Best?
  • One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.
        Clifton Fadiman   Best?
  • Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
        Ani Difranco   Best?
  • Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.
        Noel Coward   Best?
  • Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
        Homer   Best?
  • Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise.
        Al Gore   Best?
  • Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
        Beverly Nichols   Best?
  • Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
        Robert Byrne   Best?
  • The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart.
        Stephen Price   Best?
  • Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
        Christopher Hampton   Best?
  • History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?

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