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I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Cat's Cradle
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.: Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.: David Letterman (1947 - )
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Reality continues to ruin my life.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784), Supplement to Bougainville's 'Voyage,' 1796
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.: John Atkinson
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.: John Blake
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.: Jack Nicklaus (1940 - ), 'My Story'
We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.: Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-30-12
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.: G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
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Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.: Ralph Charell