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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.: David Broder
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
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Different and new is just the same old if you keep doing it over and over.: Kyran Pittman, Good Housekeeping, June 2011
The way we see the problem is the problem.: Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.: Quentin Crisp
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Never answer a critic, unless he's right.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.: Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.: Solomon Short
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.: Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
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Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.: J. G. C. Brainard
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I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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