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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

- Pearl Bailey

Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it.

- Charles Caleb Colton

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist’s metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man’s nature.

- Marcel Proust

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

- E. M. Forster

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

- C. S. Lewis

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

- Carl Sagan

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you’ll find the real tinsel underneath.

- Oscar Levant

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

- George Bernard Shaw

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

- Thomas Jefferson

The years teach much which the days never knew.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson