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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night ( Steve Martin
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A room without books is like a body without a soul ( Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Absolute power corrupts absolutely (
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by Lord Acton )
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All I know is what I read in the papers ( Will Rogers
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All men are cremated equal ( Spike Milligan line )
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt ( Charles M. Schulz
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All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds ( Voltaire
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- in Candide )
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much ( Oscar Wilde
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Architecture is music frozen in time ( Friedrich von Schelling
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Be the change that you wish to see in the world ( Mahatma Gandhi
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken ( Oscar Wilde
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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education ( Mark Twain
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Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! ( line from the movie 25th Hour )
Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard ( Spike Milligan line )
Cogito ergo sum ( Rene Descartes
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Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions ( Spike Milligan line )
Crisis, what crisis? ( Jim Callaghan
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire ( George Bernard Shaw
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Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars ( line from the movie Now, Voyager )
Don't quote me
Everything you can imagine is real ( Pablo Picasso
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Fish and guests smell after three days
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains ( Thomas Carlyle
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Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration ( Thomas Edison
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Get busy living, or get busy dying ( line from the movie The Shawshank Redemption )
God is dead ( philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche )
He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches ( George Bernard Shaw
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He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy ( line from the movie Life of Brian )
Hell is other people ( Jean-Paul Sartre
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History is bunk ( Henry Ford
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Houston, we have a problem ( John Swigert Jr.
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I can resist everything except temptation ( Oscar Wilde
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work ( Thomas Edison
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I have nothing to declare but my genius ( Oscar Wilde
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I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat ( Winston Churchill
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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by ( Douglas Adams
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I told you I was ill ( Spike Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone )
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! ( line from the movie Network )
I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens ( Woody Allen
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If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself ( Albert Einstein
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If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything ( Malcolm X
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything ( Mark Twain
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on ( Robert Frost
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Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results ( Albert Einstein
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not ( Andre Gide
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It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it ( Maurice Switzer
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It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages ( Friedrich Nietzsche
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Kiss me Hardy ( Admiral Nelson
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Let them eat cake ( Marie Antoinette
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- attributed )
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon ( Woody Allen line )
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans ( John Lennon
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Line is full of misery and lonliness and it's over much too soon ( Woody Allen line )
Live as if you will die tomorrow but learn as if you will live forever ( Mahatma Ghandhi
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Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get ( line from the movie Forrest Gump )
Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend ( Prince Charles
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My one regret in life is that I am not someone else ( Woody Allen line )
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow ( Mark Twain
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent ( Eleanor Roosevelt
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One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind ( Neil Armstrong
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Quote, unquote
Religion is the opiate of the masses ( Karl Marx
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Riddle wrapped up in an enigma ( Winston Churchill
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Run Forrest, Run! ( line from the movie Forrest Gump )
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Show me the spot ( Abraham Lincoln
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So many books, so little time ( Frank Zappa
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Sound bite
That which does not kill us makes us stronger ( Friedrich Nietzsche
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The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep ( Woody Allen line )
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read ( Mark Twain
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference ( Elie Wiesel
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid ( Jane Austen
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The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (
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from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
The truth is rarely pure and never simple ( Oscar Wilde
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The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable ( Oscar Wilde
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about foxhunting )
These go to eleven ( line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap )
This above all: to thine own self be true ( William Shakespeare )
To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! ( line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda )
To infinty and beyond ( line from the movie Toy Story )
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all ( Oscar Wilde
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Try everything once, except incest and folk dancing ( Sir Thomas Beecham
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars ( Oscar Wilde
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Well, nobody's perfect ( line from the movie Some Like It Hot )
What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course ( Marilyn Monroe
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Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away ( Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right ( Henry Ford
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Without music, life would be a mistake ( Friedrich Nietzsche
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough ( Mae West
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You smell, I stink ( Samuel Johnson
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You've never had it so good ( Harold Macmillan
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