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If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.: Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?": George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.: Mother Jones
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.: William Gibson (1948 - )
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
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Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.: Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility...: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.: Marquis de Condorcet (1743 - 1794)
Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.: Baltasar Gracian
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Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.: Alice Munro
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I dream, therefore I become.: Cheryl Renée Grossman
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), 'Poor Richard's Almanack,' June 1746
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.: Woody Allen (1935 - )