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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.: Roy M. Cohn (1927 - 1986)
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), 'Black Power: A Form of Godly Power,' 1967
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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.: Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
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Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.: Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill
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Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.: Peggy Noonan (1950 - ), in Good Housekeeping
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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.: Charles de Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2003
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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.: Jack Handey (1949 - ), Deep Thoughts
No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Atlantic Monthly, January 1869
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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.: Albert Ellis
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.: Bill Nye, Interview with Wired.com, April 2005
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