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If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Borders of Infinity", 1989
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.: Peter McArthur
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Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.: Harriet Lerner
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'Cato'
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.: Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Constantine Fitzgibbon, Life of Dylan Thomas (1965)
Keep cool and you command everybody.: Louis de Saint-Just (1767 - 1794)
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.: Sam Rayburn (1882 - 1961)
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I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.: George Best
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.: Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)
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In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.: Harrison Ford (1942 - ), as Indiana Jones
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.: James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
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The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.: Reverend Edward A. Malloy, Monk's Reflections
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No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.: Golda Meir (1898 - 1978)