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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.: Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.: Matt Groening (1954 - ), "Life in Hell"
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The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.: Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
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Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.: Patricia Russell-McCloud
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.: Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticult Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
I couldn’t kill myself, couldn’t let go like so many others had. I wonder if in their last moments they’d changed their minds, but there was no boulder to grab on to.: Suzanne Young, The Program. 2013
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.': Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
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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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.: Penn Jillette (1955 - ), Interview in WIRED magazine, 1993
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world.: Samahria Lyte Kaufman
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
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People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.: Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005