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The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.: Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
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Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.: Henrik Tikkanen
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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.: John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
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Better to look weak and be strong than to look strong and be weak.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: 35 Minutes from Home, 05-19-12
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931), The Philosophy of Despair
We are who people think we are.: David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.: Cher (1946 - )
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I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.: Alan Dean Foster, "To the Vanishing Point"
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One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.: Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), Sitting on the World, 1924
You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.: Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005
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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.: John Erskine (1879 - 1951)
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I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.: Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888)
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.: Czech Proverb
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