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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.: David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
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You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.: Ellen Metcalf
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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.: Japanese Proverb
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.: Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.: Don Herold
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.: Paul Beatty
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
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I shut my eyes in order to see.: Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
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The only joy in the world is to begin.: Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.: Norman Cousins (1915 - 1990)
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