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I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.: Brian Eno, Wired 1/99, p. 176
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.: Doris Mortman
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.: Nancy Reagan (1921 - )
The gods too are fond of a joke.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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Fools rush in where fools have been before.: Unknown
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Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
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By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.: Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.: Frederick William Robertson
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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Reading is no substitute for action.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 07-26-08
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.: Sally Kempton
My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.: Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.: T. Campbell and Gisele Lagace, Penny and Aggie, 09-12-05
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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.: Anatole Broyard
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To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects, bk. 11:11