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Dorothy ParkerIt's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

—  Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic

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Nicolas Gomez DavilaThe anarchy that threatens a degrading society is not its punishment, but its remedy.

—  Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer

Orson WellesIn Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

—  Orson Welles, 1915-1985, American actor & film director

James BarrieTo die will be an awfully big adventure.

—  James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer

Latin Quotes

Virgil If I cannot sway the heavens, I will raise hell.

Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.

—  Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet

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Ancient Greek

DemosthenesEverything is ill-arranged, ill-managed, ill-defined.

Άτακτα, αδιόρθωτα, αόρισθ’ άπαντα.

—  Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator

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Proverbs

English proverbMuch ado about nothing.

—  English proverb

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Movie Quotes

All About Eve (1950)Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.

—  from the film All About Eve (1950)

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