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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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Taking responsibility gives us power and control, because when we recognize the relationship between our choices and their consequences, then the next time we don’t like a consequence we can make a different choice.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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People age even when you're not looking.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Postive, 07-30-08
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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.: John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
If you enjoyed making a thing, and you’re proud of the thing you made, that’s enough. Not everyone is going to like it, and that’s okay.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
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All marriages are mixed marriages.: Chantal Saperstein
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I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!': Ellen DeGeneres, on Oprah Winfrey 1995
The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.: From "Taxi"
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I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959
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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.: Jerry Garcia, (of the Grateful Dead)
Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it.: Franklin P. Jones
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.: Bob Edwards
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Interview, Mcsweeneys.net