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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.: Gloria Naylor
I like sports bars. Sports bars are great because they collect all of the people I don't want to hang out with, and put them in one room.: Demetri Martin, The Overthinker, Netflix, 2018
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), "The Little Prince"
It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-16-05
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Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...: Trieu Thi Trinh
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.: Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865 - 1940)
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We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.: Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 17. Merit can be bought. Passion can't. , 08-22-04
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1808
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare
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