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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.: Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.: Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.: Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)
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Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.: Robin Williams (1951 - )
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.: Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1876
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
Imagination is more important than knowledge...: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act I
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.: Native American Proverb
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Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
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