Author: Brad Listi

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• Sextus Propertius (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Syrus (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Familiarity breeds contempt.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Benjamin Franklin (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A penny saved is a penny earned.
    FROM: Poor Richard's Almanack, (1737), Book, US
• Hart Moss & George S. Kaufman (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You can't take it with you.
    FROM: You Can't Take It with You, (1936), Play, US
• Abraham Lincoln (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
    FROM: Conversation with John Hay, (1863), Conversation, US
• Philip Wylie (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: God must hate the common man, he made him so common.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• John Collier (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I've steered clear of God. He was an incredible sadist.
    FROM: NULL, (1973), Interview, NULL
• Francis Bacon (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.
    FROM: Of Superstition, (1625), Essay, UK
• P. T. Barnum (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There's a sucker born every minute.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Baruch Spinoza (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Man is a social animal.
    FROM: Ethics, (1677), Book, Netherlands
• Aristotle (2)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.
    FROM: Politics, (-350), Book, Greece
• Protagoras (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Man is the measure of all things.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Ian McHarg (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Man is a blind, witless, low-brow anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
    FROM: NULL, (1969), Article, UK
• Bertrand Russell (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence... and it can be fostered by education.
    FROM: What Desires are Politically Important?, (1950), Lecture, UK
• James Northcote (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• George Bernard Shaw (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
    FROM: A Treatise on Parents and Children, (1910), Book, Ireland
• Dalai Lama (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Tibet
• Albert Schweitzer (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• George Orwell (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.
    FROM: Rudyard Kipling, (1942), Essay, UK
• Albert Camus (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sisyphus was basically a happy man.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (2)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Cornelius Vanderbilt (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What do I care about the law? Hain't I got the power?
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Lily Tomlin (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
    FROM: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, (1991), Film, US
• Jimi Hendrix (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Alfred Korzybski (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
    FROM: Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering, (1921), Book, US/Poland
• Buddha (2)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When a man has pity on all living creatures, then only is he noble.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Cesare Pavese (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
    FROM: NULL, (1938), Journal, Italy
• Irene Peter (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Ylla (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I tend to be suspicious of people whose love of animals is exaggerated; they are often frustrated in their relationships with humans.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Hungary
• Ring Lardner (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He gave her a look you could have poured on a waffle.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• H. L. Mencken (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Aulus Vitellius (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• Muhammad Ali (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Rubble is trouble.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Paul Valery (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The trouble with our time is that the future is not what it used to be.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Martin H. Fischer (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Germany/US
• Charles F. Kettering (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• R. H. Tawney (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
    FROM: Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, (1922), Book, UK
• Anne Sexton (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This is my death... and it will profit me to understand it.
    FROM: NULL, (1974), Poem, US
• Woody Allen (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Thomas Carlyle (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
    FROM: Sartor Resartus, (1836), Novel, UK
• Walter Savage Landor (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Taken as a whole, the universe is absurd.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Sir James Jeans (1)
  • IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK