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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.: Robert Byrne
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893), act III
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He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.: Albert Pike
As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.: H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925), King Solomon's Mines
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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We go where our vision is.: Joseph Murphy
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
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First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.: Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.: Barry Switzer (1937 - )
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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971), No One Here Gets Out Alive
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.: Alice James
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I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.: Jeanne Moreau
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.: Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003
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I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.: Beverly Sills (1929 - )
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.: William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?: Scott Adams (1957 - )
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