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In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.: Robert Byrne
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.: Dan Rather (1931 - )
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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.: Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
You must not come lightly to the blank page.: Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000
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Guilt is helpful only when it keeps us acting in line with our beliefs and morals. Otherwise, it creates needless suffering.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2003
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Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.: Stephen Vizinczey, An Innocent Millionaire
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CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.: Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.: Daniel H. Burnham (1846 - 1912)
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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.: Gloria Naylor