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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, April 22, 2003
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.: Wayne Gretzky (1961 - )
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.: J. K. Rowling
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.: Austin Phelps
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.: Edmund Wilson (1895 - 1972)
Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.: Viktor Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.: Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen.: Anonymous
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.: Penn Jillette (1955 - )
Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.: Ernie Kovacs
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.: M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637