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USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.: David Letterman (1947 - )
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I am never afraid of what I know.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878)
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.: Eddie Izzard
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.: Jules Feiffer (1929 - )
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Stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also the only way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world.: Goldie Hawn (1945 - )
Did I ever tell you about a nasty habit that flight attendants pick up on the job? We learn to always keep smiling, even when we're out of Bloody Mary Mix.: Eric Wald, View From The Top, 2003
I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.: G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
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They can do all because they think they can.: Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.: Robert Rodriguez, Spy Kids 3-D Game Over
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.: Dr. Smiley Blanton
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005), O Magazine, September 2003
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