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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.: Joseph de Maistre
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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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"
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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Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.: Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.: Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 5/22/89
Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack.: Richter cartoon caption
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Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.: Meredith Willson, The Music Man
There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.': William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.: Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum, Unshelved, 09-14-08
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Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), letter to Mary A. Hulbert, September 21, 1913
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, My Name Is John Green. And I am a Nerd., 10-30-07
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