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"A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything." Thomas Love Peacock
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good." Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air." William Gilmore Simms
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Susan Sontag

"Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments." Susan Sontag
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"A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished." The Talmud
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"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it." Alfred North Whitehead
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Ashleigh Brilliant

"With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations" Ashleigh Brilliant
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Bruce Lee
Birth: 1940-11-27 Death: 1973-07-20

"Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will."

Born in San Francisco, Bruce Lee was a skilled master of the martial arts and an actor. Often getting into fights as a child, he used Kung Fu to teach himself discipline. He was taught by Yip Men, a master in his own right. Lee improved upon his skills, eventually creating his own style known as Jeet Kune Do. Moving to Seattle to complete studies in philosophy at the University of Washington, Lee took some small roles in films, then got his big break as Kato in the Green Hornet television series. His movies, including Game of Death, which was unfinished at the time of his death, helped…



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