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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Last Chance to See"
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
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Dorothy Sarnoff
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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Elizabeth Goudge
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)
Never eat more than you can lift.
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Miss Piggy
I think the world is run by 'C' students.
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Al McGuire
When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'
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Rita Rudner
To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.
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Jim Beggs
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
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Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
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G. E. Lessing (1729 - 1781)
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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Rita Rudner
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
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Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost.
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Mary C. Taylor, Watercolor Bold and Free
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Dialogue, XIV, "Le Chapon et la Poularde" (1766)
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
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Frank Dane
Maybe it was only a second of your time, but you need to treasure life, every second.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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Joan Baez (1941 - )
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
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Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.
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Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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