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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as
getting married just because you do.
—Zsa Zsa Gabor
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How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
—Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Husbands are like fires—they go out when unattended.
—Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his
house.
—Zsa Zsa Gabor
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got
started?
—Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Macho does not prove mucho.
—Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Firstly, there is no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy
with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and
a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with
Scandinavians. Third, he doesn't exist either.
—Neil Gaiman, "The High Cost of Living"
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It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will
speak.
—Neil Gaiman, "Dream Country"
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It's no harder to be nice than it is to be creepy. And it's much more
fun.
—spoken by the human incarnation of Death in "The High Cost of
Living," by Neil Gaiman
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We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we
don't to make it all bearable.
—Neil Gaiman, "Brief Lives"
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When you say words a lot
they don't mean anything.
Or maybe they don't
mean anything anyway,
and we just think they do.
—Neil Gaiman, "Brief Lives"
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular
error.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
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In economics, the majority is always wrong.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not
know.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between
the disastrous and the unpalatable.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
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Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of
thinking.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in
moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification
for selfishness.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the
opposite.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it
does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is
to discover them.
—Galileo Galilei
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with
sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
—Galileo Galilei
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from
him.
—Galileo Galilei
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I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a
knob called "brightness," but it doesn't work.
—Gallagher
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A hypothetical paradox: what would happen in a battle between an
Enterprise security team, who always get killed soon after appearing, and
a squad of Imperial Stormtroopers, who can't hit the broad side of a
planet?
—Tom Galloway
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I'll defend to the death your right to say that, but I never said I'd
listen to it!
—Tom Galloway, with apologies to Voltaire
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There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to
the masses that cows can be eaten.
—Indira Gandhi
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
—Indira Gandhi
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the
brave.
—Mahatma Gandhi
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An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
—Mahatma Gandhi
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
—Mahatma Gandhi
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make
mistakes.
—Mahatma Gandhi
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
—Mahatma Gandhi
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and
photographers.
—Mahatma Gandhi
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I think it would be a good idea.
—Mahatma Gandhi when asked what he thought of Western
civilization
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own
reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
—Mahatma Gandhi
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The good man is the friend of all living things.
—Mahatma Gandhi
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
—Mahatma Gandhi
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
—Mahatma Gandhi
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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you
do it.
—Mahatma Gandhi
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Where facts are few, experts are many.
—Donald R. Gannon
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Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it
has to be us.
—Jerry Garcia
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He who awaits much can expect little.
—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the
world.
—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he
sings.
—Ed Gardner
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Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between
myself and all I see.
—John Gardner, "Grendel"
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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual
the burden of pursuing his education.
—John W. Gardner
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If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would
presumably flunk it.
—Stanley M. Garn
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be
left to the politicians.
—Charles de Gaulle
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On ne peut pas rassembler a froid un pays qui compte 265
specialités de fromages.
(How do you govern a country which has 265 different kinds of cheese?)
—Charles de Gaulle
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The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
—Charles de Gaulle
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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
—Jules de Gaultier
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
—Carl Gauss
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When we jumped into Sicily, the units became separated, and I couldn't
find anyone. Eventually I stumbled across two colonels, a major, three
captains, two lieutenants, and one rifleman, and we secured the
bridge. Never in the history of war have so few been led by so many.
—General James Gavin
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Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
—R. Geis
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
—Larry Gelbart
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The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is
disaster.
—Martha Gellman
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When I walk into an exam, I don't know if I'm smelling fear or just the
poor personal hygiene of Swatties.
—Joey Genereux '01
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Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the
worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.
—David Gerrold
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
—J. Paul Getty
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If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100
million, that's the bank's problem.
—J. Paul Getty
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
—J. Paul Getty
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He who laughs last didn't get it.
—Helen Giangregorio
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the
hour of separation.
—Kahlil Gibran
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the
heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of
love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
—Kahlil Gibran
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
—Kahlil Gibran
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds
long to play with your hair.
—Kahlil Gibran
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I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these
teachers.
—Kahlil Gibran
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Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
—Andre Gide
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the
tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
—Andre Gide
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Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with
the secrets of life itself.
—L. Wolfe Gilbert
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a
dirty little beast.
—W. S. Gilbert
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.
—Jean Giraudoux
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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it
made.
—Jean Giraudoux
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The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second
day, you're off it.
—Jackie Gleason
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Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking
life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while
dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that
creates the cosmos.
—Gordon G. Globus
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Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden
haze.
—Elinor Glyn
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If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by
candlelight.
—George Gobel
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Every piece of writing...starts from what I call a grit...a sight or
sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away...but quite
inexplicably lodges in the mind.
—Rumer Godden
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
—Gail Godwin
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Basically, 3 is lots of animals, 2 is one animal, and 1 is little bits of
animals.
—Chaos Golubitsky '00, explaining the divisions of biology
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I have the attention span of a turnip.
—Chaos Golubitsky '00
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I'm not good with nouns.
—Chaos Golubitsky '00
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All things are only transitory.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have
guesses enough of my own.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to
do, that makes life blessed.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate
into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely
different.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem,
see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man
hardly anything.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the
dock.
—Justice Arthur Goldberg
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It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the
next. No matter. Continue to practice.
—Natalie Goldberg
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It's the process of writing and life that matters....We are trying to
become sane along with our poems and stories.
—Natalie Goldberg
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Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
—Natalie Goldberg
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Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.
—Natalie Goldberg
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you
need to go.
—Natalie Goldberg
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When you are present, the world is truly alive.
—Natalie Goldberg
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If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
—Emma Goldman
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If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.
—James Goldsmith
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America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
—Bobcat Goldthwaite
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell's ass.
—Senator Barry Goldwater, when asked what he thought of Jerry
Falwell's suggestion that all good Christians should be against Sandra Day
O'Connor's nomination to the Supreme Court
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
—Samuel Goldwyn
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Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
—Samuel Goldwyn
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're
dead.
—Samuel Goldwyn
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I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth
even if it costs them their jobs.
—Samuel Goldwyn
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
—Samuel Goldwyn
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I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five
years.
—Samuel Goldwyn
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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
—Samuel Goldwyn
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Let's have some new clichés.
—Samuel Goldwyn
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Spare no expense to save money on this one.
—Samuel Goldwyn
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
—Samuel Goldwyn
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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving
through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to
a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that
you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.
—Ellen Goodman
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Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.
—Karen Elizabeth Gordon
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Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.
—Ruth Gordon
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I'm not the person your mother warned you about...her imagination isn't
that good.
—Amy Gorin
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Before I begin speaking, there is something I would like to say.
—Saul Gorn
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Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts!
—Saul Gorn
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Doctor, you surprise me. I have no wish to kill anyone. A short-term
crippling will suffice.
—Goss, "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
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For some reason a glaze passes over people's faces when you say
"Canada." Maybe we should invade South Dakota or
something.
—Sondra Gotlieb, wife of the Canadian ambassador to the U.S.
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Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with
it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
—Goya
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
—Martha Graham
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
—Martha Graham
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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your
whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance...is a celebration of
that miracle.
—Martha Graham
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I improve on misquotation.
—Cary Grant
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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in
spite of all the people who say he is very good.
—Robert Graves
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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with
company.
—Gianvincenzo Gravina
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It's like playing chess at 30 miles an hour.
—Coach Carl Gray on girls' ice hockey
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Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were
created to serve man.
—Paul Gray
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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
—Horace Greeley
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The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has
probably pervaded all ages.
—Horace Greeley
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History tends to exaggerate.
—Col. Green, "The Savage Curtain," "Star Trek"
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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise
the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
—Russell Green
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Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
—Graham Greene
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Sentimentality—that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
—Graham Greene
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come
into my neighborhood after dark.
—Dick Gregory
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The national dish of Scotland is something called haggis, the specific
ingredients of which I won't go into other than to say that if you can
visualize boiled, inside-out road kill, you're pretty close.
—David Grimes
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The Scots invented Scotch whiskey as a way of taking their minds off their
dreadful food. Taken in large enough doses it is quite effective in
shutting down the sense of taste, not to mention vision, hearing, touch
and, eventually, consciousness. Tragically, the English drink of choice is
hot tea, meaning that you are fully awake while eating.
—David Grimes
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Sex hasn't been the same since women started enjoying it.
—Lewis Grizzard
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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns
on you with a miniature machine gun.
—Matt Groening
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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
—Lisa Grossman
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You shouldn't wallow in self-pity. But it's OK to put your feet in it and
swish them around a little.
—Guindon
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Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.
—Cathy Guisewite
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An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as
charming as if she weren't.
—Sacha Guitry
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You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
—Sacha Guitry
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I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.
—Adrienne Gusoff
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If the shoe fits, it's too expensive.
—Adrienne Gusoff
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Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.
—Adrienne Gusoff
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Opportunity knocked. My doorman threw him out.
—Adrienne Gusoff
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Shopping is better than sex. If you're not satisfied after shopping you
can make an exchange for something you really like.
—Adrienne Gusoff
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Some men rob you with a six-gun—others with a fountain pen.
—Woodie Guthrie
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Oh my! An "inflammatory attitude" in alt.flame? Never heard of such a
thing...
—Allen Gwinn