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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), August 8, 1950
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
Who begins too much accomplishes little.: German Proverb
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Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.: Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
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I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.: Queen Juliana (1909 - 2004), of the Netherlands
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Equations are the devil's sentences.: Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report
Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun.: Jenny Bicks, Sex and the City, A Woman's Right To Shoes, 2003
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.: Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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You can’t love a crowd the same way you can love a person. And a crowd can’t love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn’t scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 26. Write from the heart., 08-22-04
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.: Jay Leno (1950 - )
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), in Christian Science
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Luck is the residue of design.: Branch Rickey (1881 - 1965), Lecture title, 1950
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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