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"Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture." »Jacquelyn Mitchard
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"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it." »Conan Doyle
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"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation." »Fran Lebowitz
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"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes." »Dave Barry
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"We live in a world where lemonade is made from aritificial flavoring and furniture polish is made from real lemons" »Alfred E. Neuman, The Half-Wit and Wisdom of Alfred E. Neuman (MAD magazine)
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"We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons..." »Alfred E. Newman
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"Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture." »St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695)
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"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it." »Dee Hock
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"Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet." »Jeff Melvoin
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"If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies." »Albert Einstein
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"People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first." »John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958)
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