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A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.: Robert Chapman
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Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.: Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.: Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "Dreams and Facts"
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.: David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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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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Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.: William James (1842 - 1910)
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.: Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.: Harold Rosenberg
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What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.: Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
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Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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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
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Get on stage. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it's there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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