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If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.: Marcus Bridgstocke
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.: Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - )
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Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.: Unknown, Hanlon's Razor
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.: David Rockefeller (1915 - )
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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Address, 2005
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
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Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.: Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960), Nods and Becks, 1944
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
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It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.: e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
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It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
All movements go too far.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.: Roseanne Barr
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), "Of Human Bondage", 1915
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It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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