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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.: Bill Gates (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
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The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.: Jean Kerr
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A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.: Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), "Artist Descending a Staircase"
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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim.: Annie Dillard
Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Our Tribe, 1992
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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Frugality without creativity is deprivation.: Amy Dacyczyn
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Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.: John Churton Collins
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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.: Saint Basil (329 AD - 379 AD)
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.: Emo Phillips, Neuropsychology: Clinical and Experimental Foundations