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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Animal Farm"
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), 'Economy,' Walden, 1854
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The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.: Lucille S. Harper
Women should be obscene and not heard.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.: Alan Corenk
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.: Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.: Louis I Kahn
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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey, 1818
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.: Lenore Hershey
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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.: Hannah More
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[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.: Dan Quayle (1947 - )
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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