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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.': Steven Wright (1955 - )
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A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.: George Steiner
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.: Ann Richards
'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?' 'Well, that would be a start.': Peter Stone, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in "Charade", 1963
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935
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I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.: Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.: Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.: Graffito
Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.: Jimmy Demaret
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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)