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It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism"
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.: Foster's Law
I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
Genius is of no country.: Charles Churchill
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O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come!: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, 1599-1600
Make your life a mission - not an intermission.: Arnold Glasgow
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.: Anne Tyler (1941 - )
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
The way we distinguish ourselves is by showing our individuality.: Elisa Camahort, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW 2006
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.: Eric Ambler
There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
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Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 07-26-2012
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
First things first, but not necessarily in that order.: Doctor Who
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.: Carl Reiner
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.: A. R. Ammons
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.: Seth MacFarlane, The Family Guy
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
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