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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
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Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, I Heart NY, 2002
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His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.: Russel Lynes
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Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
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Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.: David Frost
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That's the key to having it all: stop expecting it to look like what you thought it was going to look like.: Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Plus One Is The Loneliest Number, 2002
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.: Pierre Gallois
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I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.: Zach Braff
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: 35 Minutes Away From Home, 02-29-12
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Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.: Peter Marshall, Senate chaplain, prayer offered at the opening of the session, April 18, 1947
If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.: John A. Wheeler
I take care of my things. After all, those of us as has few things to begin with must take care, lest we have fewer.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.: Joan Baez (1941 - )
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A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.: Anonymous
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary