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Art is science made clear.: Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'Cato'
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.: Margaret Bonnano
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.: Deepak Chopra
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.: Henry S. Haskins
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.: Joey Bishop (1918 - )
Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), on the radio program The Big Show, Dec. 17, 1950
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I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last.: Vernon Howard
We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.: Kanye West
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005), Comedy Central Presents
When you get right down to it, what we all need is a place to go... A place where we can escape the noise of our lives and just relax.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.: Richard Lewis
We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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