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My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.: Jeff Foxworthy
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.: Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
Our heroes are those... who... act above and beyond the call of duty and in so doing give definition to patriotism and elevate all of us.... America is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave.: David Mahoney
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-2003
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Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Notebook, 1935
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If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.': Jeff Foxworthy
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Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.: Diogenes the Cynic (412 BC - 323 BC)
Be neither too remote nor too familiar.: Prince Charles (1948 - ), of Wales
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
The important thing is not to stop questioning.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
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The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun.: Jenny Bicks, Sex and the City, A Woman's Right To Shoes, 2003
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.": Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953), Farewell my Youth (1943)
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If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.: Marcus Bridgstocke
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
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The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.: Jane Wyman (1914 - )