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An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mite Makes Right, 1994
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Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), Taken Care Of ,1965
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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939
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America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.: Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum, Unshelved, 09-14-08
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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 07-05-04
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.: Maureen Dowd, in 'New York Times'
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.: Esther Dyson, Interview in Time Magazine, October 2005
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