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Ernest Hemingway. Photo: Chicago Tribune That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929 We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678) This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form. - Francis Ford Coppola There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. - Robert Louis Stevenson Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein Art is born of the o...

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Thomas Paine. Photo: Wikipedia Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.  - Thomas Paine  The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.  - Joan Baez  Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.  - Mark Twain  Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.  - Kin Hubbard  When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.  - Ernest Hemingway  In a mad world only the mad are sane.  - Akira Kurosawa  Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.  - Margaret Mitchell   Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. - Ludwig van Beethoven Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.  - Walter Winchell  For one person who dreams of making fifty tho...