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  • Deanna48
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    Charles Baudelaire -- "Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!"

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  • Deanna48
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    Alan Watts -- "But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know."

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  • Deanna48
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    Joan Baez -- "Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers."

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  • ernests
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    "Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity. "
    — Lord Byron

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  • ernests
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    "Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning. "
    — Douglas Horton

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  • momn8r
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    Unattributed: Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them.

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  • Fudi
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    Pop culture's gotten much more disposable."
    — "Weird Al" Yankovic

    It's been around (this quote) for more than a year and the recordholder, currently, is maradnu at 62 seconds.

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  • Fudi
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    Check out #14 on this forum ... Ben seemed to have a lot to say about this topic.

    "Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy."
    — Benjamin Franklin

    Awfully hard this with this version too, I think.

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  • Fudi
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    "The wildest colts make the best horses. "
    — Plutarch

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  • Deanna48
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    John Milton -- "Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie."
    I've had this one several times and it always takes me forever!

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  • Fudi
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    "A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds. "
    — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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  • Deanna48
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    Kin Hubbard -- Politics makes strange postmasters.

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  • gavinl
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    Yes that was it NedZeppelin...i have subsequently had the quote again and got it quite easily this time...don't know why it stumped me so badly the first time! Thanks for posting.

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  • nedzeppelin1453
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    Originally posted by gavinl
    Thanks, but that wasn't it. I recall it had a hyphenated word.
    Maybe this one:

    "Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head."

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  • Fudi
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    "Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions."
    — Albert Claude

    Oy.

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