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  • It's easier to win a chess game in five minutes than it is to talk about Russia's problems in 15 minutes
        Garry Kasparov   Best?
  • Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see a lot of people doing it.
        Sue Grafton   Best?
  • I have been like a child walking along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty-- never to know the pearl within!
        Robert Anthony   Best?
  • Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God.
        Jason Mraz   Best?
  • Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
        Barry Goldwater   Best?
  • A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
        George S. Patton   Best?
  • Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
        Arnold Toynbee   Best?
  • We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.
        John Kerry   Best?
  • Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits.
        Paul Graham   Best?
  • An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
        T.S. Elliot   Best?
  • Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential.
        Black Elk, Native American   Best?
  • You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
        Warren Beatty   Best?
  • Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
        Rita Mae Brown   Best?
  • Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.
        Jane Adams   Best?
  • I finally realized that being a role model doesn't mean people are encouraged to be like me -- they're encouraged to go out and be more of themselves.
        Lucy Lawless   Best?
  • Arbeit macht frei. (Work sets you free).
        Major Rudolph Hoss   Best?
  • We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.
        Henry Bromel   Best?
  • The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as close to heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you can which the world does not need - this life is hell.
        W. E. B. DuBois   Best?
  • I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.
        Emma Thompson   Best?
  • When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.
        Lenny Bruce   Best?
  • It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, "In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.
        Andy Warhol   Best?
  • Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
        Fran Leibowitz   Best?
  • The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
        Henry J. Tillman   Best?
  • I have taken all knowledge to by my province.
        Sir Francis Bacon   Best?
  • No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
        Cicero   Best?
  • I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
        Shelley Winters   Best?
  • If antidepressant drugs are effective, why don't they work for psychiatrists? Year after year, psychiatrists commit suicide at a higher rate than the general population. Are we to believe that they don't take their own drugs, or that the drugs don't have the benefits attributed to them?
        Nicolas Martin   Best?
  • Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
        Sue Murphy   Best?
  • With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
        Jack Nicklaus   Best?
  • His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?
        Norman Maclean   Best?
  • Once in the racket you're always in it.
        Al Capone   Best?
  • I have done some indiscreet things in my day, but this thing of playing myself for a prophet was the worst. Still, it had its ameliorations. A prophet doesn't have to have any brains. They are good to have, of course, for the ordinary exigencies of life, but they are no use in professional work. It is the restfulest vocation there is. When the spirit of prophecy comes upon you, you merely take your intellect and lay it off somewhere in a cool place for a rest, and unship your jaw and leave it alone; it will work itself. The result is prophecy. (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Chapt 27)
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of dead cow.
        Bob Ekstrom   Best?
  • Now comes the mystery.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
        Katharine Whitehorn   Best?
  • In accordance with our principles of free enterprise and healthy competition, I'm going to ask you two to fight to the death for it.
        Monty Python   Best?
  • The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?

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