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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

William Blake

Life, Greed, Experience

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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Ive always believed the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Woody Harrelson

Excess, Palaces, X Files

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There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Pain, Rooms, Pleasure

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.504, Delphi Classics

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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'

Ralph Ellison

Action, Forget, Possibility

Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.592, Vintage

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The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.

John Darnielle

Wise, Artist, People

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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.

Ben Jonson

Scratches, Crafts, Succeed

Ben Jonson, William GIFFORD (Editor of the Quarterly Review.) (1853). “The Works of Ben Jonson. With a Biographical Memoir, by William Gifford. A New Edition”, p.888

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Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Cutting, Pbs, Support

Twitter post from Oct 04, 2012

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I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd failed to file my damned income tax. One of the stems had broken off of my reading glasses. There were ants in my apartment. I needed to get my teeth cleaned. My shoes were run down at the heels. I had insomnia. My auto insurance had expired. I cut myself every time i shaved. I hadn't laughed in 6 years. I tended to worry when there was nothing to worry about. And when there was something to worry about, i got drunk.

Charles Bukowski

Running, Reading, Cutting

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You'd better not be trying to steal that," she said. The boy shrugged and reached for the small rolling suitcase at her feet. "I wouldn't dare." "Because I'm an excellent yeller." "I don't doubt it." "And fighter. My cousin gave me this nail file... the thing's just like a switchblade.

Ally Carter

Cousin, Boys, Feet

Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Albert Einstein

Love, Country, Peace

"Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

Nicole Kidman

Careers, Different, Don't Care

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It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked them out with round strokes: one chop-a nose appears; another chop-lips appear; eyes are scooped out with a big drill; and she lets it go into the world rough-hewn, saing: "ALIVE!

Nikolai Gogol

Eye, Let It Go, Finishing

Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.93, Vintage

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me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset? gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to tear merriam a new asshole and throw webster inside of it.

David Levithan

Morning, Upset, Tears

John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.165, Penguin

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She didn't even notice right away that a small animal had come out from behind a nearby car and was slowly making its way toward the trash can she was standing near. She flipped through some old files in her mind, trying to come up with what this thing might be, and after a few seconds decided that--impossible as it seemed--it was a fox.

Maureen Johnson

Animal, Car, Mind

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Wrong way, Bones. The men's showers are in the opposite direction." I'll file that away with all the other information that doesn't pertain to me" was Bones' mocking reply.

Jeaniene Frost

Men, Opposites, Information

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... once you were in, they put a note in your file that said you were in therapy, and all your teachers saw that file. They might as well have tattooed CRAZY on your forehead. The next year every teacher would be watching you for the first weird thing you did—and has there ever been a kid who never does anything an adult considers weird?

John Barnes

Teacher, Crazy, Kids

John Barnes (2009). “Tales of the Madman Underground”, p.15, Penguin

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You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

Erma Bombeck

4th Of July, Food, Patriotic

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It was something of a mystery how a couple of teenage girls had managed to escape detection for two years, especially when one of them was a privileged Moroi princess and the other a delinquent dhampir with a disciplinary file so long that it broke school records.

Richelle Mead

Girl, Teenage, Couple

Richelle Mead (2017). “Vampire Academy: The Untold Stories”, p.68, Penguin UK

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From my sketch files I'll find a pose that shows the emotion behind a particular character's story.

Frank Bruno

Sports, Athlete, Character

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Reading student papers, blue books, etc., a form of torture ... a matter of rubbing an iron file over one's teeth, or holding urine in one's mouth, or having the racket of a bulldozer in one's ear for an hour or two on end.

Newton Arvin

Book, Reading, Blue

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You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. ... You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on your computer and bring up the right file. ... You begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a huge autistic child. ... Then your mental illnesses arrive at the desk like your sickest, most secretive relatives. And they pull up chairs in a semicircle around the computer, and they try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath, leering at you behind your back.

Anne Lamott

Children, Typewriters, Trying

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But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the rank and file or lesser grades who neither engage in pagan sacrifices nor capital punishment, be admitted into the church? No on both counts.

Tertullian

Military, Sacrifice, Punishment

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...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

Joseph Goebbels

Gun, Simple, Notable

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What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

Henry David Thoreau

Science, Library, Newspapers

Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.669, Modern Library

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Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

America, World Government, Liberty

"Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era". Book by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, 1970.

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