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Silence is the virtue of fools.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Diaries of Adam and Eve
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.: Rita Rudner
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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.: Claude M. Bristol
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.: Daniel Considine
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.: African Proverb
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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.: Joe Ancis
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.: Robert Byrne
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.: Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960)
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.: Bruce Grocott (1940 - )
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.: Rabbi Seymour Siegel
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Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004