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My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.: Errol Flynn (1909 - 1959)
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.: Pindar (522 BC - 443 BC), 518-438 B.C.
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Advice is very easy to give, and even easier not to follow, so I don't fool with it.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), 'Pro Plancio,' 54 B.C.
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Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.: George Meany
Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.: Coleman Cox
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.: Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937), in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)
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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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Why was I born with such contemporaries?: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.: Rita Mae Brown