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I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it's primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it's a primal calling.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 17. Merit can be bought. Passion can't. , 08-22-04
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
A hug is a wonderful thing. It makes you feel wanted, needed, and loved all at the same time.: Gregory Garcia and Dan Coscino, Raising Hope, Happy Halloween, October 26, 2010
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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The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.: Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), in Fast Company
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.: W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)
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Ninety percent of everything is crap.: Theodore Sturgeon (1918 - 1985)
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Confusion is always the most honest response.: Marty Indik
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), when asked to describe radio
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Music at Night", 1931
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I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.: Cynthia Ozick
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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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
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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