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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind"s
eye." | |
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Carolyn Wells
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| "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a
coffin." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there
wasn"t any Santa Claus, and he"s still upset." | |
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J. G. Cozzens
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| "All things I thought I knew; but now confess the more I know I know,
I know the less." | |
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John Owen
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| "An idealist believes the short run doesn"t count. A cynic believes
the long run doesn"t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left
undone in the short run determines the long run." | |
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Sydney J. Harris
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| "And everything comes to One, As we dance on, dance on, dance
on." | |
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Theodore Roethke
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| "And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at
least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied
by at least one laugh." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "Be wisely worldly, not worldly wise." | |
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Francis Quarles
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| "Cecil Graham: What is a cynic? Lord Darlington: A man who knows the
price of everything and the value of nothing." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are,
not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking
out a cynic"s eyes to improve his vision." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth." | |
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Lillian Hellman
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| "Cynicism is intellectual dandyism." | |
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George Meredith
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| "Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the
arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is
life itself." | |
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Henry Havelock Ellis
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| "Dancing is the poetry of the foot." | |
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John Dryden
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| "Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can." | |
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Lord Owen Meredith Lytton
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| "Genius does what it must, talent does what it can." | |
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Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
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| "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." | |
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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| "I got started dancing because I knew that was one way to meet
girls." | |
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Gene Kelly
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| "I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it
as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my
feet in the air and move them around." | |
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Fred Astaire
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| "I worry that no matter how cynical you become, it"s never enough to
keep up." | |
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Jane Wagner
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| "If we listened to our intellect, we"d never have a love affair. We"d
never have a friendship. We"d never go into business, because we"d be
cynical. Well, that"s nonsense. You"ve got to jump off cliffs all the time
and build your wings on the way down." | |
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Ray Bradbury
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| "If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well
dance." | |
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Unknown
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| "If you"re already walking on thin ice, you might as well
dance." | |
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Gil Atkinson
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| "In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and
humbug and we shall want to live more musically." | |
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Vincent van Gogh
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| "Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of
war." | |
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Homer
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| "No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up." | |
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Lily Tomlin
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| "O chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the
blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can
we know the dancer from the dance." | |
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William Butler Yeats
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| "Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but
she did it backwards and in high heels" | |
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Faith Whittlesey
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| "The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never
fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and
blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic
puts all human actions into two classes ? openly bad and secretly
bad." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses ? behind the lines,
in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those
lights." | |
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Muhammad Ali
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| "The only deadly sin I know is cynicism." | |
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Henry Lewis Stimson
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| "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by
those who have not got it." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could
not hear the music." | |
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Angela Monet
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| "Unthinking, idle, wild, and young, I laugh"d and danc"d and talk"d
and sung." | |
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Princess Amelia
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| "Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what
they lack." | |
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
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| "We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the
middle and knows." | |
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Robert Frost
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| "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." | |
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Joseph Kennedy
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