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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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First things first, but not necessarily in that order.: Doctor Who
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
What we play is life.: Louis Armstrong (1900 - 1971)
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An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.: John Buchan (1875 - 1940)
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Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.: H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.: Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Dare to be yourself.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.: Robert Sternberg
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Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.: Bella Abzug (1920 - )
It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my curiosty, I want to go there, be a part of whatever it is that's either pushing me or pulling me toward it. That desire for experience has made me very rich in life experience.: Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.: Lady Violet Bonham Carter (1887 - 1969)
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.: Peter McWilliams
Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.: Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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