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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.: Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)
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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Young Hope, 04-26-13
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The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.: Dee Hock
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), Emile, 1762
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.: Claud Cockburn (1904 - 1981)
I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.: R. D. Laing
I am never afraid of what I know.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878)
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.: Garry Marshall, 'Wake Me When It's Funny'
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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
If you have the creative urge, it isn't going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 30, 08-22-04
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self Reliance"
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.: Konrad Lorenz (1903 - 1989)
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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.: John Tudor
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