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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.: Robert Chapman
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), "Job", 1984
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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.: Wayne Gretzky (1961 - )
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Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
The greater man the greater courtesy.: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.: Katherine Cebrian
Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.: John L. Motley (1814 - 1877)
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
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In the end, everything is a gag.: Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.: Unknown
You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.: Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, Accepted, 2006
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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.: Sidney J. Harris
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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I row after health like a waterman...: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)