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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
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I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, One, 2003
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.: Bill Gates (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.: Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
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Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.: Bob Thaves, "Frank and Ernest", 1982
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.: Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.: Peter Borden
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.: P. B. Medawar (1915 - )
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
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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I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-14-04
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.: Joseph P. Thompson
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.: Chinese Proverb
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Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.: Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference
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If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.: Elaine Liner, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW 2006
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There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915