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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
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"I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion."

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer
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"I have no idea what I am doing but incompetence has never prevented me from plunging in with enthusiasm."

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Voltaire Philosopher, Writer
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"It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color."

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Thomas Reed Philosopher
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"One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted."

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Robin Williams Actor, Comedian
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"Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full.""

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Mae West Actress, Singer, Screenwriter
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"It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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"You're all going to die. I hate to remind you, but it is on your schedule. It probably won't happen when you'd like; generally, it's an inconvenience."

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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"The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the wrong way.""

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