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To play it safe is not to play.: Robert Altman (1925 - 2007)
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
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The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 7. Keep your day job., 08-22-04
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.: Tina Fey, Vogue Interview, 2010
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Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973
We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.: Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-30-12
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.: Unknown
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cat's Cradle"
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.: William Cobbett (1763 - 1835)
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.: Randy K. Milholland, Midnight Macabre, 10-18-05
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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.: Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
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People are always trying to [mess] up other people's live's by telling lies about 'em. You wanna really [mess] somebody's life up? Tell the truth about 'em. They ain't never gonna be the same.: Brian Buckner, True Blood, Bad Blood, 2010
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)