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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?: Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), Fahrenheit 451, 1953
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.: Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
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As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
There is no silver bullet and frankly you probably don’t need one. It is far more important to be able to find the right kind of gun, be able to load the gun … and perhaps most importantly, be able to figure out where the werewolf is.: Matthew Oliphant, Useability Works, 03-22-2006
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.: Frederick Langbridge (1849 - 1923)
If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?: Shantideva
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She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.: John Mason Brown (1900 - 1969)
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I am at two with nature.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
He who laughs, lasts!: Mary Pettibone Poole
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
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I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964), interview, 1959
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.: Bible, Old Testament
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)
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