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If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.: I. F. Stone (1907 - 1989)
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.: Don Delillo
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.: Eddie Izzard
Every artist was first an amateur.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Progress of Culture, 1876
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One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), in "Saving Milly" by Morton Kondrake
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Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.: Ursula K. LeGuin
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)
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I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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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
Man always gets less than he demands from life.: Jack London (1876 - 1916), The People of the Abyss
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.: Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.: Bobby Knight (1940 - )
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If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.: Teena Booth, Falling From Fire
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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.: Pat Paulsen
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.: Unknown
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