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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
German (Swiss-born) alchemist & physician (1493 - 1541)


Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism
English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744)


There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

Author Unknown


There must be more to life than having everything.

Maurice Sendak
US juvenile illustrator (1928 - )


The wages of sin are unreported.

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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Ann Landers
US advice columnist (1918 - 2002)


The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Hubert H. Humphrey
US politician (1911 - 1978)


They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Emily Dickinson
US poet (1830 - 1886)


The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer


The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth
US author & wit (1884 - 1980)


The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.

From the 1985 movie "Bliss"


They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Plato
Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)


There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger
US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - )


The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.

From "Taxi"


The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn


There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

Lester J. Pourciau


The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.

Norman Brenner


The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

Jay Leno
US comedian & television host (1950 - )


The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

Art Spander


Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)




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