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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.: James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
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Communism is like one big phone company.: Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966)
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I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.: Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)
In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.: Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
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Nearly one-half of all Americans are torsos.: Demetri Martin, On James Corden, Sept. 7, 2018
A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.: William Penn (1644 - 1718)
Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.: Price Cobb
One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'God and the Bible,' 1875
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit.: Narenda Rocherolle, Cashing In or Selling Out, SXSW 2006
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.': Jeff Foxworthy
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Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.: Marilyn Manson (1969 - ), I Don't Like The Media But The Media Likes Me - Columbine statement
For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.: Ingrid Bengis
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A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.: Paul Dudley White
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The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.: Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989)
My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXLVII