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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
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Diogenes the Cynic (412 BC - 323 BC)
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
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Rita Mae Brown
When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom.
Hi, Mom!
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Laurie Anderson
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
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Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
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David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
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Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
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Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005), Mitch All Together
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
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Steven Wright (1955 - )
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.
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Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 12, 2003
There ain't no such thing as wrong food.
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Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.
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Louis Schwartzberg, TED, the hidden beauty of pollination, March 2011
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
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Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.
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Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
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Desmond Morris
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Jeanne Moreau
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
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Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
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