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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 - )
Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!: Matt Frewer, as Dr. Mike Stratford in "Doctor, Doctor"
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We are always the same age inside.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.: Phillip C. McGraw, O Magazine, February 2003
Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.: Marya Mannes
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
The middle of the road is where the white line is-and that's the worst place to drive.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
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If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.: Ecclesiasticus, Aprocrypha (Ec. 41:12)
Things are only impossible until they're not.: Hannah Louise Shearer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, When The Bough Breaks, 1988
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.: Okakura Kakuzo
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
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The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.: Vidal Sassoon
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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I would rather be taken advantage of now and again than go through life seeing monsters everywhere.: Heather Fawcett, Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter, 2026
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It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.: J. K. Rowling
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)