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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.: Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.: Elmer G. Letterman
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USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.: David Letterman (1947 - )
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Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.: Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.: Artemus Ward (1834 - 1867)
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.: Buck Henry
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.: Garry Trudeau (1948 - )
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.: Rita Rudner
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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.: Greek Proverb
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Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1928
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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