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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.: James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003
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Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.: Cheryl Tiegs (1947 - ), O Magazine, May 2004
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Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.: John Le Carre (1931 - ), Magnus Pym in "A Perfect Spy"
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
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The unspoken word never does harm.: Kossuth
Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.: William Hale White
Stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also the only way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.: John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Indianapolis, 26 Sept. 1952
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Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.: Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.: Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
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Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.: Henrik Tikkanen
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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.: Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
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If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.: Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05
Every day holds the possibility of a miracle.: Elizabeth David
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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