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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Elie Wiesel (1928 - )
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
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William Penn (1644 - 1718)
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
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Aaron Rose
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
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Richard Wagner
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
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Alice Kahn
I bet the human brain is a kludge.
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Marvin Minsky
Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.
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Lady Violet Bonham Carter (1887 - 1969)
Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09-17-05
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
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Anonymous, often attributed to Dan Quayle
People get comfortable with the way you are—they have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
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William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
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Henry George (1839 - 1897)
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
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Bradley's Bromide
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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