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This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.: Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
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There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 27, 2003
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There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993
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I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.: Sister Mary Rose McGeady
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), The Last Asset, 1904
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.: Paul Fussell
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I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.: Shakti Gawain
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Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 'Rhesus'
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.: William James (1842 - 1910)
It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 04-11-2006
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.: Bob Edwards
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The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.: Dudley Moore (1935 - 2002)
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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.: Elizabeth Goudge
God must become an activity in our consciousness.: Joel S. Goldsmith
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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.: Pat Paulsen