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I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.: Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
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I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Incidentals (1907)
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Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.: Sue Murphy
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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.: C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog comments, 06-11-04
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Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.: Craig Newmark (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark
I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.": Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953), Farewell my Youth (1943)
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.: Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
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Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!: R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 11-06-06
There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007), Armies Of The Night
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.: Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.: Felicia Day, Geek and Sundry, State of the Sundry, 03-25-13
When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
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