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...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.: Elizabeth Goudge
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.: Pierre Gallois
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Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.: Saint Francis of Assisi (1181 - 1226)
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Men who never get carried away should be.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Everybody is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book, painting, screenplay etc, especially if you haven't sold it yet. And the ones that aren't, you don't want in your life anyway.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 22. Nobody cares. Do it for yourself., 08-22-04
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.: Billy Joel (1949 - )
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.: Edward Chapin
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.: Marvin Minsky
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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.: Unknown
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You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.: Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), "Heretics", 1905
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done.: Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910