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Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.: Henry J. Tillman
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
So little time and so little to do.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.: William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.: Doug Larson
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All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.: Ice T, The Ice Opinion
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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.: Charles Kuralt
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Imagination is more important than knowledge...: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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It's all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.: Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.: Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.: Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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