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But the shortest works are always the best.

-- Jean de La Fontaine

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Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.

-- Kurt Vonnegut

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Most anarchists believe the coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty.

-- Lucy Parsons

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There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

-- Paul Ricoeur

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Success is relevant to coping with obstacles... But no problem is ever solved by those, who, when they fail, look for someone to blame instead of something to do.

-- Waggoner, Fred

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Is it different, then, for men and for women? What isn't, dearie?

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

-- Henry David Thoreau

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Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

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Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.

-- Stephen R. Covey

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On his bold visage middle age Had slightly pressed its signet sage, Yet had not quenched the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth; Forward and frolic glee was there, The will to do, the soul to dare, The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire, Of hasty love or headlong ire.

-- Walter Scott

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