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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.: David Letterman (1947 - )
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The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.: From "Taxi"
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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.: Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc. 5
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Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.: John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
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You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), in Look, Apr. 3, 1956
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.: John Berry, Flight of White Crows
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A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to relect complexity.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?: Unknown, Dan Fielding in "Night Court"
These days an income is something you can't live without--or within.: Tom Wilson, "Ziggy" (comic)
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
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