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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.: Clement Atlee
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It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.: Mary MacCracken
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Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.: Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910
It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.: Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.: Unknown
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.: Claude Swanson (1862 - 1939)
Storms make oaks take deeper root.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
Live well. It is the greatest revenge.: The Talmud
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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.: Hesiod (~800 BC)
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.: John C. Dvorak
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.: Warren Buffett (1930 - )
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.: Annie Dillard, 'The Writing Life'
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
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