W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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I met my wife in South Dakota.
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TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
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It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.
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I transcend earthly bounds. I never cease to amaze myself because I haven't yet found my limits. I am quite ready to accept the limits of what I can do, but every time I feel that way - boom! - God touches me and I do something that's even more stupendous than whatever I've done up to then.
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It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty.
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A god that can be understood is not a god.
