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This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.: William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.: Edward Young (1683 - 1765), Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
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Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.: Doug Larson
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.: Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
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Never fight an inanimate object.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.: Zora Neale Hurston (1901 - 1960), Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.: Anzia Yezierska
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It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, September 26, 1712
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.: Alexander Humboldt (1769 - 1859)
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.: The Dalai Lama (1935 - )
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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...: Joan Didion (1934 - ), Oprah Magazine, May 2004
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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