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If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101, 1991
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We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Family Feud, 1993
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.: William Penn (1644 - 1718)
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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.: De La Lastra's Law
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
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After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Russian Flu, 1990
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.: Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885)
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He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Every crowd has a silver lining.: Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810 - 1891)
Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.: Norman Brenner
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.: Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind