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He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.: Cardinal de Retz, Memoires
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I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.: Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997
We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.: Tom Masson
I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.: Artemus Ward (1834 - 1867)
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Some tips for life: 1.Don't be afraid to follow your dreams, unless your dreams are stupid. 2.Be kind to people. 3.Don't get too excited when you read the Fountainhead 4.In times of recession, it is time for invention. 5.Things can kill you, so keep that in mind, you fearless know it alls.: Eugene Mirman, LHS Commencement Speech, 2009
They always talk who never think.: Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721)
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.: Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005
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Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.: Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )