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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.: Quentin Crisp
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.: Wendell Berry
Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!: Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan, Big Bang Theory, The Agreement Dissection, 2011
Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.: The Talmud
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.: Peter McArthur
Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soulpower to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different.: Dr. Frank Crane
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.: Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996)
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You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.: Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
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Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.: Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.: Henry J. Tillman
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.: Marianne Williamson, "A Return to Love," 1992
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.: Diane Wakoski