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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you.: Tina Fey, Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, 2009
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My computer beat me at chess... so I beat it at kickboxing.: Demetri Martin
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The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.: Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
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Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 07-05-04
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.: Jill Churchill, O Magazine, May 2003
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The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.: Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
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He who will not economize will have to agonize.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.: Gloria Steinem (1934 - ), Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 1983
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Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Profiles in Courage, 1956
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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.: April Foiles
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?: Kanye West, Rolling Stone, 2006
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To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
College isn't the place to go for ideas.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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