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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
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If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
I live in the present due to the constraints of the Space-Time Continuum.: Hank Green
I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
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Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.: George Lois
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Impact of Science on Society (1952) ch. 1
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.: Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), US Secretary of Defense
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.: Napoleon Hill
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.: Harold Rosenberg
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Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.: Ruth Stout
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The cure for anything is salt water... tears, sweat or the sea.: Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales, 1934
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