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"Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed."
"The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it."
"Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings."
"Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses"
"It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa"
"No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend."
"I've known and respected your husband for many years, and what's good enough for him is good enough for me"
"The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old"
"I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30."
"You get a canoe later and I'll paddle you."
"My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial"
"Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven."
"Your education experience, talent intelligence, and financial situations don't matter. The important thing is the direction in which you focus your unique, powerful, creative mind"
"When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?"
"It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness ."
"If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness"
"In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy."
"No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon."
"Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation."
"Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration."
