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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.: Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), Sitting on the World, 1924
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.: Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)
The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.: Leo Buscaglia (1925 - 1998)
All things are difficult before they are easy.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
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All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.: Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer…
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.: Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Nearly one-half of all Americans are torsos.: Demetri Martin, On James Corden, Sept. 7, 2018
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Slaughterhouse Five
If you believe everything you read, better not read.: Japanese Proverb
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If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.: Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
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