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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Our Tribe, 1992
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It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.: Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
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The average person thinks he isn't.: Father Larry Lorenzoni
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.: Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.: Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933), "How to Write Short Stories"
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One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.: Emil Zatopek
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.: Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'The Spectator'
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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.: Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.: Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
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The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong.: Sir Colin Marshall
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.: Jeannette Rankin (1880 - 1973)
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I could prove God statistically.: George Gallup (1901 - 1984)
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Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.: Tommy Cooper
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I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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