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The business world contains plenty of successful men who have no brains.

Abraham Cahan

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The Rise of David Levinsky

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Cahan, Abraham. The Rise of David Levinsky. Harper & Brothers, 1917.

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Cahan, Abraham. The Rise of David Levinsky. Dover Publications, 2002.

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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

Lord Chesterfield

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 19 Oct. 1748.

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Strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Samuel Pepys

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Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry. 25 Dec. 1665.

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Pepys, Samuel. "Diary entry, 25 Dec. 1665." The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Everyman's Library, 2018.

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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Douglas Adams

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

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Adams, Douglas. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Pan Books, 1980, introductory paragraph.

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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Christopher Marlowe

The Jew of Malta

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Marlowe, Christopher. The Jew of Malta. London, c. 1633, prologue.

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Marlowe, Christopher. "The Jew of Malta." Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays. Penguin Classics, 2004, prologue.

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The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual.

H.G. Wells

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Wells, H. G. "The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia." Harper's Magazine, Apr. 1937.

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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Rebecca West

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West, Rebecca. The Court and the Castle. Yale University Press, 1957.

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I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

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Steal old stuff.

Austin Kleon

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Kleon, Austin. "More Advice for the Recent Graduate." 25 May 2017, austinkleon.com/2017/05/25/more-advice-for-the-recent-graduate/.

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My whole life, people have been telling me what I could do and couldn't do. I’ve always listed to ’em, believed in what they said. I don’t wanna do that anymore.

Rudy

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Rudy. Directed by David Anspaugh, TriStar Pictures, 1993.

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I like to think about what was going on the year the grapes were growing, how the sun was shining, if it rained. I like to think about all the people who tended and picked the grapes, and if it's an old wine, how many of them must be dead by now.

Sideways

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Sideways. Directed by Alexander Payne, Michael London Productions, 2004.

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Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

John Galsworthy

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Galsworthy, John. Windows. 1922, Royal Court Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

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Tragedy plus time equals comedy.

Steve Allen

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Allen, Steve. "Steve Allen's Almanac." Cosmopolitan Magazine, Feb. 1957.

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That great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Viscount Morley

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Morley, John. "Aphorisms." 11 Nov. 1887, The Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh, Scotland. Address.

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To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch

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Baruch, Bernard M. Quoted in Newsweek. 29 Aug. 1955.

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For over a thousand years, Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of a triumph—a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters and musicians and strange animals from the conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children, robed in white, stood with him in the chariot, or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror, holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning, that all glory is fleeting.

Patton

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Patton. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox, 1969.

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My days have been so wondrous free,
The little birds that fly
With careless ease from tree to tree,
Were but bless'd as I.

Thomas Parnell

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My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free

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Parnell, Thomas. "Song." Poetical Miscellanies, Consisting of Original Poems and Translations. London: Jacob Tonson, 1714.

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Now the art world has become the art market.

Eric Fischl

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Fischl, Eric. Public conversation between Eric Fischl and Robert Berlind. 19 Mar. 2014, National Academy, New York, NY, USA.

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Honesty is the best policy; but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.

Richard Whately

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Whately, Richard. Thoughts and Apophthegms. London: Blackader and Company, 1854, ch. 18.

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What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place.

Bill Bryson

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Neither Here Nor There

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Bryson, Bill. Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe. Secker & Warbug, 1991.

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