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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
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Rodin (1840 - 1917)
whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present?
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Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
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Henry C. Link
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
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Bob Edwards
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.
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Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
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Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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Jack London (1876 - 1916)
Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.
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Madeline Bridges, O Magazine, December 2003
I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
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David Letterman (1947 - )
America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech, New York, December 6, 1911
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
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Ken Olsen (1926 - ), President, Digital Equipment, 1977
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
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Chuck Norris (1940 - )
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
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Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
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Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
Grief does not change you, it reveals you.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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