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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.: Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.: Mark Russell (1932 - )
Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?': Terry Pratchett, Soul Music, page 151
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Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.: Cindy Gardner
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Good food ends with good talk.: Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.: Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992
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What's another word for Thesaurus?: Steven Wright (1955 - )
The wages of sin are unreported.: Unknown
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
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There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), "Catch-22"
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)