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Can I ever know you Or you know me?: Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.: Ruth Benedict (1887 - 1948)
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.: George Aiken
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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.: A. Sachs
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Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.: Bible, Old Testament
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.: Lichty and Wagner
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The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.: Jill Churchill, O Magazine, May 2003
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An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world.: Samahria Lyte Kaufman
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980), In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995)
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.: George Bush (1924 - ), "All the Best, George Bush"
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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The wisest men follow their own direction.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.: Robertson Davies
We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.: Jeffrey Rowland, Sound! 12-22-05
Put your whole self into it, and you will find your true voice. Hold back and you won't. It's that simple.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 25. You have to find your own schtick., 08-22-04