"If the artist says it's a work of art, it's a work of art." - Marcel Duchamp

"Little known and mostly laughed at."

"I know what it is to be unpopular, Mister Adams." - George Washington

"Don't ever tell people how good you are; show them." - Arnold Palmer's father

"He works from about 9 in the morning to about 3 in the afternoon. Then he works from about seven to eleven or eleven-thirty. He does ...

"As great powers lose, they can learn a great deal about themselves." - Professor Marvin Kalb

"To risk and fail and pick yourself up and start again is how you learn." - Tom Selleck

"Accomplish much while appearing to do little." - Benjamin Franklin on the French ethic

"Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself." - Gene Simmons

"If I was to go by the amount of rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago." - Mike Myers

In 1486 a giraffe was released into Florence. It roamed freely for three weeks before dying.

Winston Churchill drank 2 pints of whiskey daily.

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Conan O'Brien's Dartmouth Commencement address  here .

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"I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. ...

Best preserved theatre in the ancient world.

"Sometimes you need to go through bad things to arrive at a good place." - James Frey Photo source here .

"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy ... or they b...

"I was so obsessed with getting good grades that I don't think I learned anything." - High school Valedictorian and 12-time ...

A hereditary monarch, observed Thomas Paine, is as absurd a proposition as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

Edouard Manet, Bar at the Folies-Bergere , 1882

circa 1930

"the timeline of war and conflict across the globe" http://www.conflicthistory.com

"I went to brush something off my cheek and it was the floor."

The most expensive lager in the the world is Carlsberg's Jacobsen Vintage No. 1

"Change in aggravation is like a holiday."

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