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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.: Alvin Toffler
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.: Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931)
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.: Cullen Hightower
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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
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Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.: Jerry Frankhauser
A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.: Mark Ardis
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.: Robert Jackson
It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.: Pema Chodron
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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!': John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.: Jerry Garcia
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
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In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.: Roger Allen
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It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
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A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.: Joan Rivers (1935 - )
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