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I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.: Konrad Lorenz (1903 - 1989)
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Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.: Kenneth Tynan
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Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.: Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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The first duty of love is to listen.: Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.: Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.: Kate Reid
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Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.: Charles Kuralt
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You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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)
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)
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The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-10-06
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.: Bill Gates (1955 - )