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We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.: Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973), "Pogo" (comic strip)
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It is bad luck to be superstitious.: Andrew W. Mathis
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.: Anonymous
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.: Sir Henry Taylor
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.: John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.: Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
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Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.: David Letterman (1947 - )
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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.: Edgard Varese (1883 - 1965)
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), "Keep the Faith, Baby!", 1967
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act III, sc. 1
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.': Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.: Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 06-15-05
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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.: Suze Orman, O Magazine, February 2003
'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 11-05-09
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