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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.: Evelle J. Younger
When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.: Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966)
The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.: Garth Brooks, Country Music
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.: James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958)
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You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.: John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.: Millicent Fenwick
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.: David Rockefeller (1915 - )
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Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.: Jeff Foxworthy
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.: William H. Sheldon
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)