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I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.: Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Never fight an inanimate object.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
If I've learned one thing in the 14 years I've been a full-time cartoonist, it's that you can not let anyone else define your professionalism. It has to be a personal ethos to which you adhere despite third party influence or acceptance. The old measuring sticks for professionalism are going away and now more than ever it's time for independent creatives to set the bar. Set it high.: Scott R. Kurtz, PvPonline, 11-28-2011
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In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.: Frank Wilczek (1951 - )
'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.: George Ade (1866 - 1944), "The Steel Box", 1898
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Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.: Thomas Szasz
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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If you bow at all, bow low.: Chinese Proverb
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.: Joe Theismann, Former quarterback
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There is only one you... Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!: Charles Swindoll
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.: Dan Rather (1931 - )
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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Sometimes the facts in my head get bored and decide to take a walk in my mouth. Frequently this is a bad thing.: Scott Westerfeld, So Yesterday, 2004
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.: Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.: Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937), Courage, 1927
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.: Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.: La Fontaine