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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
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David Letterman (1947 - )
The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.
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From "Taxi"
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
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George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
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Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc. 5
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
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John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), in Look, Apr. 3, 1956
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
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John Berry, Flight of White Crows
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to relect complexity.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?
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Unknown, Dan Fielding in "Night Court"
These days an income is something you can't live without--or within.
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Tom Wilson, "Ziggy" (comic)
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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