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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.: Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.: John Rogers, Kung Fu Monkey, 06-25-11
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I am never afraid of what I know.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878)
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.: Claude Swanson (1862 - 1939)
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.: Alan Alda (1936 - )
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.: Sharon Gold
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.: Alfred A. Montapert
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.: Robert Anton Wilson
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)
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Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.: Judy Garland (1922 - 1969), to her daughter, Liza Minelli
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.: Mortimer Adler
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.: Henry Stimson (1867 - 1950)
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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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