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Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
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How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
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Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.: Garrison Keillor (1942 - )
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.: Ellen Glasglow
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.: Quentin Crisp
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We are the people our parents warned us about.: Jimmy Buffett
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Caltech commencement address, 1974
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.: Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
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History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.: Leonard Louis Levinson
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When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Thoughts on Various Subjects
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.: Robin Norwood
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