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I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
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You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.: Wayne Gretzky (1961 - )
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935
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What I dream of is an art of balance.: Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), O Magazine, April 2003
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Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.: Penn Jillette (1955 - )
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.: Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Rosebud, 1993
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This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.: Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, October 14, 2003
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Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.: Mickey Mouse (1928 - )
Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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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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Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.: Evelyn Underhill
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.: Beryl Pfizer
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990