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Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
I want to hang a map of the world in my house, and then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've travelled to. But first I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.: Frank Crane
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Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view.: Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde, Northern Exposure, Roots, 1991
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Parents are never as bad as kids think they are.: Matt Witten, House M.D., Cursed, 2004
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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911), The Mikado, 1885
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)
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The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.: Michael Friedman
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2004
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Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
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Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us? How dare we let it into our decision making; into our livelihoods; into our relationships? It's funny isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up, in costume and celebrate fear.: Greg Daniels, Carrie Kemper, Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, The Office, Spooked, October 2011
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First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916
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