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Nothing endures but personal qualities.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.: Saki (1870 - 1916)
I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking.: Joyce Grenfell
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.: Felicia Day, Geek and Sundry, State of the Sundry, 03-25-13
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.: Ted Morgan
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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.: Quentin Crisp
There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.: Poul Anderson (1926 - 2001)
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
I think it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice, if it doesn't lead to a crime.: Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
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When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.: Tina Fey, ABC-TV World News Now
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
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I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.: Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.: Walter Pater (1839 - 1894), 1873
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The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.: Lord Brabazon (1884 - 1964)
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