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There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.: Susan Jeffers
- More quotations on: [Worries]
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Travels in Alaska by John Muir, 1915, chapter 1
- More quotations on: [Nature] [Camping]
When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.: Ellen DeGeneres
Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.: Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 02-01-09
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.: Henry L. Stimson (1867 - 1950)
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The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said.: Vaclav Havel (1936 - )
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.: Mary MacCracken
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.: John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- More quotations on: [Books]
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend.: George Shelley
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), "Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art", 1980
- More quotations on: [Maturity]
Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.: Stuart Stevens, Northern Exposure, Brains, Know-How, and Native Intelligence, 1990
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air.: Eric Wald, View From The Top, 2003