Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them."
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Letters
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Plato
Philosopher
"The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals"
Jack Adams
Artist
"Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate."
Marie-Louise von Franz
Psychologist, Author
"Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail?"
Demetri Martin
Comedian, Actor
"If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters."
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"A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend."
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"Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys."
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"If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!"
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"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."
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"If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another."
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"You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her."
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"Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly."
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"truth is a letter from courage!"
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"My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees."
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"A letter does not blush."
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"Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing."
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"I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet."
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"You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove."
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"When I went to jail, I was a trained lawyer. And when the wardens received letters of demands or summonses, they didn't have the resources to go to an attorney to help them. I would help them settle their cases, so they became attached to me and the other prisoners."
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"The Bible is God's love letter to us"
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"Maintain perfect harmony between yourself and every member of your mastermind group. If you fail to carry out this instruction to the letter, you may expect to meet with failure. The master mind principle cannot obtain where perfect harmony does not prevail."
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"Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something."
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"If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him."
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"Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic."
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"About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort."
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