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I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.: Jane Goodall (1934 - ), Lecture in Salt Lake City, Utah, 03-04-08
I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03
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A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.: Mark Ardis
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.: Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan, 2009
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There is one person in charge of every office in America and that person is Charles Darwin.: Charlie Grandy, The Office, Get the Girl, March 2012
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
It's not a 9-5 job. It's an every moment you're awake job because you actually enjoy the work that you're doing.: Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Designing for Community with Zero-Advertising Brands, SXSW 2006
The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 09-17-08
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Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.: J. S. Bryan
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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Never give a child a sword.: Latin Proverb
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Life is not so important as the duties of life.: John Randolph (1773 - 1833)
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-13-05
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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.: W. N. Taylor
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