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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.: Clive James
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Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.: Spanish Proverb
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Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.: Conan O'Brien, Final Tonight Show Speech, 2010
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.: Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.: David Letterman (1947 - )
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Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.: Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
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It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.: Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995), One Fat Englishman (1963)
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.: Alan Watts
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Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.: Anthony Starr
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), "The Little Prince", 1943
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The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
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