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Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 6, 08-22-04
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.: Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994), in his White House farewell
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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.: Evelyn Underhill
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.: Edwin Schlossberg
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
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The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.: Sir Henry Taylor
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, January 21, 1838
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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 11-14-08
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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.: Harrison Ford (1942 - ), as Indiana Jones
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Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946), in Richard J. Anobile - "Godfrey Daniels"
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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