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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
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I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.: Kevin Rose, Diggnation, Our Lip Dub Is Better Than Yours, 2008
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
I don't think it's good that we're perceived as different I think it's important we're perceived as MUCH BETTER. If being different is essential to doing that, then we have to do that, but if we could be much better without being different, that'd be fine with me. I want to be much better! I don't care about being different, but we'll have to be different in some ways to be much better.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.: Edward De Bono
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Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.: Anonymous
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Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.: Jack Benny (1894 - 1974)
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
The least of learning is done in the classrooms.: Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.: Henry George (1839 - 1897)
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Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.: Doris Egan, House M.D., The Right Stuff, 2007
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Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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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)
If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.: Eddie Izzard, Dress To Kill
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.: Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
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The phrase "action speaks louder than words," is most easily proven by a swift kick to the genitals.: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798