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There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.
Rebecca West

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@edgarblythe,

The only problem with Einstein's hindsight vision is that both Germany and Japan were working on nuclear bombs. That the US beat them to the punch was a "good" thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nuclear_weapon_program

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@cicerone imposter,

He was regretting the opening of "Pandora's Box."

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My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to create the illusion? Let 'em wonder. I never believed in givin' them too much of me.
Mae West

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A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
Billy Wilder

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My name is only an anagram of toilets.
T. S. Eliot

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The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, "Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home." And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
Thornton Wilder

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True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde.

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I don't believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
Tennessee Williams

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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson.

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@eurocelticyankee,

I'm sorry that logic demolishes your position.
~ Matt Dillahunty - The Atheist Connection

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Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams

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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

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@eurocelticyankee,

So many gods to consider.

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Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
August Wilson

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@edgarblythe,

White supremacists have set themselves up as the custodians of everybody else's experience. Has not worked out too well in Virginia.

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Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
P. G. Wodehouse

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Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
I don’t want to earn my living, I want to live.
Your attitude status belongs to you and it’s your choice if you want to have a good one.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

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Very nice post. I like it all.
Some more are given below:
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

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