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My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
Living in a vacuum sucks.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.: Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 15, 08-22-04
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.: Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)
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A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.: Jeff Bezos (1964 - )
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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You must not come lightly to the blank page.: Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000
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I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.': Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice
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There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.: Bono (1960 - ), Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.: Dan Rather (1931 - )
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.: Phyllis Diller
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.: Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
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All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Letter to his sister, Nov. 14, 1947
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.: Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.: Leonard Louis Levinson
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