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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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Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.: Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
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Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.: Buzz Aldrin (1930 - )
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.: Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003
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You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), in New York Times, 1985
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.: Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers (1976)
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.: Joan Klempner
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See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'The Spectator'
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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