“Man does not live by words alone despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.”
Adlai Stevenson, quoted in the Melbourne Sunday Herald Sun
“Nothing is improbable until it moves into the past tense.”
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“Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.”
Writer Jane Wagner, quoted in The Buffalo News
“The ego is not master in its own house.”
Sigmund Freud, quoted in the Rock Hill, S.C., Herald
“At least a bad conscience can make life interesting.”
Søren Kierkegaard, quoted in the London Observer
“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”
Harry Truman, quoted in the Modesto, Calif., Bee
“The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people’s faces, because that’s the only thing that you can see.”
Gil Scott-Heron, quoted in The New Yorker
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