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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.: A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.: Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860)
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Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.: Barbara Schapiro, O Magazine, May 2003
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If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.: Brendan Francis
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.: Frank Wilczek (1951 - )
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.: Simone de Beauvoir
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959
You threaten to punch someone in the face, what do they do? They duck. You try to punch 'em in the wallet and they always open up.: Howard Gordon and Evan Katz, Awake, Ricky's Tacos, April 2012
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.: Immanuel Hermann Fichte
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Food is our common ground, a universal experience.: James Beard
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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.: Peter McArthur
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
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I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003
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Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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