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The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.: Thomas Bailey, 'Leaves from a Notebook,' Ponkapog Papers, 1903
It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.: Billy Joel (1949 - )
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
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If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.: Kanye West, Rolling Stone, 2006
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.: Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.: Mikhail Bakunin (1814 - 1876)
Every time we say, "Let there be!" in any form, something happens.: Stella Terrill Mann
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Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Dude, marriage is the 'get out of loneliness free' card in the Monopoly game of life.: Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz, Home on the Strange, 11-09-07
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.: e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Travels in Alaska by John Muir, 1915, chapter 1
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The future will erase everything—there’s no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.: Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)
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