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Ed Koch quote: "The art of creation is older than the art of killing."

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

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I don’t have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse to believe me if I tried to explain that some people don’t think jokes even belong in proper books. I won’t bother breaking the news that, if they remain readers, they will insist on depressing themselves for about a decade of their lives, in a concerted search of gravitas through literature. Nick Hornby
Epicurus quote: "The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship."
The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship. Epicurus
No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker. Anne Tyler
Well, you can't tell it from looking at him....It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how. Ann Patchett
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And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers. Sonia Braga
Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength. Abdul Kalam
Mahatma Gandhi quote: "We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be..."
We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings. Mahatma Gandhi
My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs. Stephen Colbert
I became convinced that the advanced industrial countries, through international organizations like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the World Bank, were not only not doing all that they could to help these [developing] countries but were sometimes making their life more difficult. IMF programs had clearly worsened the East Asian crisis, and the "shock therapy" they had pushed in the former Soviet Union and its satellites played an important role... Joseph Stiglitz
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed. Dan Simmons
Diana Wynne Jones quote: "Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping."
Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping. Diana Wynne Jones
I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it. Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Clare Boothe Luce
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Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individual. He "gives his opinion and then rests upon it"; he renders service when there is no reward, and is too reclusive for some things to seem to touch him; not because he has no feeling but because he has so much. Marianne Moore