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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Art,' 1841
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When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.: George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 06-10-04
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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.: George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.: Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell"
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.: Phillip C. McGraw, O Magazine, February 2003
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.: Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
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It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, September 26, 1712
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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.: Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
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I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic.": Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005), Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.: Sara June Parker
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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