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I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.
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Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
In a mad world only the mad are sane.
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Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
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David Letterman (1947 - )
I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.
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Frank Deford
Regimen is superior to medicine.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
Personally I have struggled massively with the dilemma of talent vs desire. Choosing desire may not always be the easiest thing to do. It may seem a waste to leave those natural talents behind and strike out in a new direction. But at least you’ll feel alive.
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Meri Williams, Talent vs Desire, 05-29-06
...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.
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Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
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Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.
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Matthias, Correction Weblog, 11-01-03
I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
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Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
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Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
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Michael Masser and Linda Creed
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
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Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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