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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
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If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
The future is much like the present, only longer.: Dan Quisenberry
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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.: Muhammad Ali (1942 - )
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Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
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Our lives teach us who we are.: Salman Rushdie (1947 - )
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.: Hob Broun
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The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.: Lucille S. Harper
If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.: Edward De Bono
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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.: Theophrastus (372 BC - 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.: Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)
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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.: Peter Marshall, Senate chaplain, prayer offered at the opening of the session, April 18, 1947