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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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When you drink the water, remember the spring.: Chinese Proverb
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The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.: Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536)
When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.: Carolyn Heilbrun (1926 - )
To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?: Katharine Graham
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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The only thing I like about rich people is their money.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.: Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.: Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), Sitting on the World, 1924
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.: Doris Mortman
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!: Laurie Anderson
In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.: R. A. Butler (1902 - 1982)
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For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.: Ingrid Bengis
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For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.: Bob Wells
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