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If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.: Yugoslav Proverb
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act 4
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.: E. W. Dijkstra
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine
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The computer is a moron.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.: Dale Carnegie
It's never just a game when you're winning.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.: Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993
I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.: Lynda Barry
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.: Carolyn Heilbrun (1926 - )
Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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