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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.: Earl Mac Rauch, from "Buckaroo Bansai"
[Spring is] a true reconstructionist.: Henry Timrod
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
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Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.: Rose Cherin
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.: Ice T, The Ice Opinion
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Dance like it hurts, Love like you need money, Work when people are watching.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Way of the Weasel
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.': Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.: Doris Egan, House M.D., House vs. God, 2006
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It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.: Freeman Dyson (1923 - )
First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.: Martin Myers
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It is easier to stay out than get out.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen.: Anonymous
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.: Lenore Hershey
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.: Lord Jeffery
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