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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.: Chuck Reid
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.: Stanley Kunitz, O Magazine, September 2003
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.: David Frost
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It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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When there's snow on the ground, I like to pretend I'm walking on clouds.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.: Thomas Henry Huxley
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.: Evelle J. Younger
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.: Ben Stein
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.: Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.: Albanian Proverb
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