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Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.: Howard Scott (1926 - )
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.: Sidney J. Harris
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
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People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.: Bagdikian's Observation
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Mostly Harmless
Hope is only the love of life.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.: Gordon Atkinson, reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4, 2003
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Laughter is by definition healthy.: Doris Lessing
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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.: William H. Borah
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Follow the grain in your own wood.: Howard Thurman
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.: Dan Quayle (1947 - )
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.: Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
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I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.: Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888)