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Sometimes we lose things, and it feels like the entire world is gone. Swallowed up whole by the emptiness left behind. But it’s not true. As long as you’re still pulling in breath, you still have options. Choices.: Susan Kaye Quinn, You Knew the Price, 2021
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.: Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), On the Nature of the Universe
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.: Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 06-15-05
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Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.: Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.: Robert Byrne
Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.: Diane Wakoski
A man can do all things if he but wills them.: Leon Battista Alberti (1404 - 1472)
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.: Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996)
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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.: Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
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The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.: Anonymous
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.: April Foiles
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You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
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I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic.": Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005), Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004
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I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones? The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, The Quest, 1995
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.: Will Cuppy
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