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Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.: Anonymous
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939 "The Shrike and the Chipmunks"
It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maxims, 1665
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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.: Gordon Atkinson, reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4, 2003
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Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.: Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)
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The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.: Franklin P. Jones
When you write things down, they sometimes take you places you hadn't planned.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
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My Karma ran over your dogma.: Unknown
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.: Stephen Nachmanovitch
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One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.: Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
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Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
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Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 1 Ignore Everybody, 08-22-04
There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925