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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Hocus Pocus
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.: Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.: Bill Vaughan
You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable.: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, A Wing and a Prayer, 1994
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They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.: Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848)
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
Sanity is a madness put to good use.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.: Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 - 1928)
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Above all things, reverence yourself.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.: Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks