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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed; also attributed to Ann Landers)
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Who you are moment to moment is just a story.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.: Isabel Colegate
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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.: Doris Lessing
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I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.: Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
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To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.: Cynthia Ozick
A friend is a second self.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.: Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.: Penn Jillette (1955 - ), in a Compuserve chat
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.: Dorothy Sarnoff
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What you are is a question only you can answer.: Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice, 1986