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My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.: Steven Weinberg (1933 - ), quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.: Hansell B. Duckett
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There it was, hidden in alphabetical order.: Rita Holt
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine
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Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 10-26-07
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.: David Reisman
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.: Lee Simonson
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.: Louise Erdrich
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An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962), to a young physicist