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She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.: Sophia Loren (1934 - )
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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.: John J. Plomp
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.: David Russell
Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.: Mel Brooks (1926 - )
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.: Toni Morrison (1931 - ), Beloved
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Music is essentially useless, as life is.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
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No man is an Island, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine...: John Donne (1572 - 1631), Devotions XVII
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.: William J. Broad
Equations are the devil's sentences.: Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Running cross country is the closest man will ever get to flying.: Joseph Vanderstel
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While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.: Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976
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There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.: Ann Richards