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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

—George Ade

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

—Louisa May Alcott

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If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

—Erich Fromm

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Be the chief but never the lord.

—Laozi

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The possible ranks higher than the actual.

—Martin Heidegger

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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

—Hippocrates

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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

—Samuel Butler

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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

—John Keats

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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

—John Updike

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I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

—Marcel Duchamp

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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

—Pablo Picasso

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I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

—Mary Roberts Rinehart

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I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

—George Burns

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Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

—Bill Vaughan

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