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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
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Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Arthur Dent in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.: Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.: Jacopo Sannazaro
No man ever listened himself out of a job.: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
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Now is the time for all good men to come to.: Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973), "Pogo" (comic strip)
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.: Will Cuppy
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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.: Celia Thaxter
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)