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Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.: Salma Hayek
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One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.: James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
Men have become the tools of their tools.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993
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History never looks like history when you are living through it.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002), quoted by Bill Moyers
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Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.: Doug Larson
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.: Joanna Field
It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, April 22, 2003
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.: Edna Ferber (1887 - 1968)
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
Silence is more musical than any song.: Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.: Quentin Crisp