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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.: Andrew S. Tanenbaum
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.: Gloria Swanson (1899 - 1983)
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.: Sam Ewing
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I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.: Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
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A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.: Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
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I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family.: Madeleine Albright (1937 - ), Making Sense of the Unimaginable, O Magazine
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
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Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.: Doug Larson
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.: A. R. Ammons
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.: Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
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