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There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.: Russel Lynes
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.: Lady Duff-Gordon (1863 - 1935)
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.: Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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I have such poor vision I can date anybody.: Garry Shandling (1949 - )
The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.: Victoria Holt
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God’s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002
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To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818