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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
Housework
Erica Jong

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My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Heroes and Heroism
Michael Jordan

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Ornaments were invented by modesty.
Modesty
Joseph Joubert

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Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
Action
Immanuel Kant

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Life and Living
Immanuel Kant

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When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered.
Crisis
Ryszard Kapuscinski

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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
Depression
John Keats

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.
Love
Thomas Kempis

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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
Failure
Charles F. Kettering

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How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Gerhard Kocher

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Nursing would be a dream job if there were no doctors.
Doctors
Gerhard Kocher

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Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
Style
Willem De Kooning

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The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, do you think they were created in jest?
Heaven
The Koran

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The psychoanalysts pick our dreams as if they were our pockets.
Psychoanalysis
Karl Kraus

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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Company
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Lawyers I suppose were children once.
Law and Lawyers
Charles Lamb

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The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
Genius
George Henry Lewes

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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
Dishonesty
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.
Government
Rush Limbaugh

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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Faces
Abraham Lincoln

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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Enthusiasm
Abraham Lincoln

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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Ambition
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Advantage
Sophia Loren

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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
Beauty
Sir John Lubbock

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If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.
Economy and Economics
Peter Lynch

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun