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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.: Harry Golden (1902 - 1981)
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Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.: Bob Edwards
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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.: May Sarton
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.: Latin Proverb
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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.: Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
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Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, October 2002
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.: Bill Gates (1955 - ), Time Magazine, January 13, 1996
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
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[Not smoking the cigarette is] a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.: Unknown
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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Genius is of no country.: Charles Churchill
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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
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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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?: Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Escape from New York, 2000
People find life entirely too time-consuming.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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