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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.: Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005
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All that counts in life is intention.: Andrea Bocelli, in TV Guide
Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.: Melody Beattie
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Mysticism and Logic (1917) ch. 4
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.: Spanish Proverb
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.: Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), Gravity and Grace, 1947
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.: Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.: Cullen Hightower
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.: Henry J. Tillman
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.: Robert Bresson
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.: Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy"
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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.: Eric Berne (1910 - 1970)
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