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We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.-- John Gardner
"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."-- John Galsworthy
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.-- John Gall ("Systemantics")
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."-- John Gilmore
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.-- John Keats
Manners are one of the truly lost causes.-- John Simon
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.-- John Donne
Every psychic investigator of [the medium] Mrs. Piper was impressed by her simplicity and honesty. It never occurred to them that no charlatan ever achieves greatness by acting like a charlatan. No professional spy acts like a spy. No card cheat behaves at the table like a card cheat.-- Martin W. Gardner
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.-- John Stuart Mill
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."-- John Ciardi
Quality without creativity is pompous;
Creativity without quality is infantile.-- John Cerruti
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.-- John LeCarre
"Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being."-- John Updike
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.-- John Keats
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.-- John Cleese
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."-- John Adams
"Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews."-- John Updike
Poetry is the mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.-- John Masefield
You probably go to museums and complain that Monet pressed down too hard with his crayons because the picture is all bumpy.-- John Woods