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Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.: Lane Olinghouse
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.: Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)
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Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us - Life is the test of us!: Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
You may delay, but time will not.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.: Georg W. Hegel (1770 - 1831)
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
I always like a good math solution to any love problem.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Take Me Out To The Ballgame, 1999
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Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?: Frank Scully
Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.: Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
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I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.: Joe Walsh
Invention is the mother of necessity.: Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.: Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
One kind word can warm three winter months.: Japanese proverb
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Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.: Diane Wakoski