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Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.: Sir Julian Huxley (1887 - 1975)
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Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.: Cullen Hightower
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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.: Dee Hock
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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.: Philip Adams
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.: John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
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Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.: Wil Wheaton, WWdN: In Exile, 12-14-2011
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.: David Brin (1950 - )
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
The great god Ra whose shrine once covered acres Is filler now for crossword-puzzle makers.: Keith Preston
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God"
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.: Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996)
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Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.: Unknown
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Careful. We don't want to learn from this.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), "Calvin and Hobbes"
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
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There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.: Robert Orben
Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, sc. 1
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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