“What’s the difference between neurotic and eccentric? How much money you make.”
Columnist Jason Love, quoted in The Denver Post
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
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“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”
Richard Nixon, quoted in the Edmonton Journal
“If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.”
Peter Ustinov, quoted in Australia’s South-West News
“The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be.”
James Richardson, quoted in The Washington Post
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
Henry David Thoreau, quoted in the London Independent
“Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.”
Author Rita Mae Brown, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
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