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When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.: Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684)
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.: Arab Proverb
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.: Bayard Taylor
A mind too active is no mind at all.: Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.: Unknown
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.: Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922
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Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Laughter is inner jogging.: Norman Cousins (1915 - 1990)
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006)
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.: Vincent Canby, on the Academy Awards
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.: Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), 1908
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.: Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008