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I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn't notice. I noticed when I got that bill. Whoa!… — Rita Rudner
In order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer, is, to continue… — George Muller
Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence. — Stanley Crouch
Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless. — Luc de Clapiers
The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain. — Joseph de Maistre
In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about… — Ernest Hemingway
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. — David Halberstam
Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for… — J M Coetzee
Integrity is not a character trait that one possesses more or less of but a sophisticated state of processing experience in the world one enters… — David A. Kolb
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the… — George Orwell
Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond… — Thomas Jefferson
I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions. — Thomas Jefferson
In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on,… — Albert Einstein
It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing… — Albert Einstein
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's… — William Faulkner
One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at… — Henry James
Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are. — Rod Serling
I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future. Finally, I realized that I had allowed myself to write less than I could.… — Waldo Salt
He will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection that he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

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