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I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?': Jay Leno (1950 - )
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He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.: Johann K. Lavater
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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
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This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.: Wolfgang Pauli (1900 - 1958), on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.: Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
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This book fills a much-needed gap.: Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.: Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), Les Enfants Terribles
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.: Erich Segal
I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.: Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933)
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.: Gordon R. Dickson
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Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.: Christina Baldwin
Reality is something you rise above.: Liza Minnelli (1946 - )
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.: Alexander Humboldt (1769 - 1859)
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Road Not Taken
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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