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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.: Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.: John Milton (1608 - 1674)
If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.: David Shore, House M.D., One Day, One Room, 2007
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.: Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672), 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655
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We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.: James Magary
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A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.: Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909)
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.: Katharine Butler Hathaway
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Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.: Robert Byrne
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.: Sol Hurok
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.: Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"
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Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.: Colin Powell (1937 - )
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Life is a zoo in a jungle.: Peter De Vries
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Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)