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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Get Well Soon, Health, Italian

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, 4th Of July, Safety

  sir John Barnard, Benjamin Franklin (1848). “A present for an apprentice [by sir J. Barnard]. To which is added, Franklin's Way to wealth. [Ed.] by a citizen of London [T. Tegg].”, p.288

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• We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Suffering, Doe

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Dec 26, 2016

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• Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work!

  George Lucas

  "The Imagineering Way: Ideas to Ignite your Creativity" by Marty Sklar, 2003.

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• It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Children, Writing, Learning

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• I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Writing, Bird

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• If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do.

  Brett Hoebel

  Commitment, Exercise, Thinking

  "The Biggest Loser 11: Conference Call with New Trainers Brett Hoebel and Cara Castronuova". Interview with RealityWanted, www.realitywanted.com. January 19, 2011.

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• Antiquite  . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe"  tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche  d and boring.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Etc, Boring, Antiquity

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• I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Writing, Ideas, Phrases

  "The Alien Critic" Journal, August 1973.

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• Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that nothing matters, nothing changes, money is everything, etc). Writing is a state of being as well as an act of doing.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Powerful, Writing, Soul

  "Creative writing professor Hanif Kureishi says such courses are 'a waste of time'" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2014.

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• The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset.

  Catherine Opie

  Photography, Sunset, Sunrise

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• Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Hippie, Simple, People

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself...If evil means to be self motivated, to be the center of one's own universe, to live on one's own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth cliches lent us from the so-called Fathers. To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

  Janet Finch

  Father, Philosophy, Mean

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• New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.

  Theo James

  New York, Real, Poetic License

  "From Turkish Corpse to New York Cop" by Jeremy Egner, www.nytimes.com. February 15, 2013.

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• It's an old - and true - cliche that VCs rarely actually say 'no' - more often they say 'maybe', or 'not right now', or 'my partners aren't sure', or 'that's interesting, let me think about it'

  Marc Andreessen

  Thinking, Fundraising, Interesting

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• I'd discovered another of life's cliches by being with jude: the happier you are in life, the faster it passes you by.

  Nicole Williams

  Faster

  Nicole Williams (2013). “Crush”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• Here was the astounding fact: the race did go forward; the race did achieve; and in every way the race grew better. Progress through irrational and astounding blunders, whose outrageousness bedwarfed the wildest cliches of romance, was what Kennaston found everywhere. All this, then, also was foreplanned, just as all happenings at Storisende had been, in his puny romance; and the puppets, here to, moved as they thought of their own volition, but really in order to serve a denouement in which many of them had not any personal part or interest...

  James Branch Cabell

  Race, Order, Romance

  "The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions". Book by James Branch Cabell, 1917.

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• This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but she's still beautiful.

  Tila Tequila

  Beautiful, Makeup, Icons

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• Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising of a telephone box. It is not helpful for understanding what hit New York on September 11. Those people were not mindless and they were certainly not cowards. On the contrary, they had sufficiently effective minds braced with an insane courage, and it would pay us mightily to understand where that courage came from. It came from religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  New York, People, Leader

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• Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

  Andrew Bird

  Deception, Honest, Capacity

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I grew up in southern California in the 80s. Yes, I am a walking cliche.

  John Scalzi

  California, Southern, Grew Up

  "John Scalzi: the internet's troll-slayer" by Erin McCann, August 27, 2013.

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• Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Writing, Salvation, Constant

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• What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual and effective principles and values. This is what is known in the cliche as the "veneer" of civilization.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Thinking, Maturity

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• The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.

  Faith Popcorn

  Popcorn, Culture, Sometimes

  Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.43, BookBaby

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• In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Baseball, Sex, People

  Chuck Klosterman (2008). “Downtown Owl: A Novel”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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