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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.: Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), 1836
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), "The Crack-Up" (1936)
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Measure for Measure'
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), speech, June 11, 1928
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.: Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.: Greg Garcia, Raising Hope, Dead Tooth, 09-28-10
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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.: Mark Russell (1932 - )
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.: Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
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You threaten to punch someone in the face, what do they do? They duck. You try to punch 'em in the wallet and they always open up.: Howard Gordon and Evan Katz, Awake, Ricky's Tacos, April 2012
General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.: Bernard Bailey
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.: Clementine Paddleford