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A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things - a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.: John Grogan, Marley and Me, 2005
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.: Roy M. Goodman
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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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When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.: Edward Young (1683 - 1765), Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)
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Equations are the devil's sentences.: Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report
But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.: Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 - )
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Reading, 1854
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), letter to her brother, 1894
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.: Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.: Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.: Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
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