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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.: Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968)
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919
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I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.: Whoopi Goldberg
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
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See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06
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Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.: George F. Will (1941 - )
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Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.: Noela Evans
We could have bought a small yacht with what we spent on our dog an dall the things he destroyed. Then again, how many yachts wait by the door all day for your return?: John Grogan, Marley and Me, 2005
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It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.: Baltasar Gracian
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?: Dick Cavett (1936 - )
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.: Bruce Lee (1940 - 1973), Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Let us, then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
We are who people think we are.: David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)