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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).: Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
A good home must be made, not bought.: Joyce Maynard, "Domestic Affairs"
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.: James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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Why was I born with such contemporaries?: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.: Alfred A. Knopf
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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
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