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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.: Samuel McChord Crothers
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.: Samuel McChord Crothers
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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.: Frederick Langbridge (1849 - 1923)
We made a solemn vow not to take any job outside of show business. We borrowed money from parents and friends, rather than take that lethal job waiting tables. This forced us to take any job offered to us. Anything. We once did a show in the middle of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia as part of a fashion show on a hot July night while all around our stage, a race-riot was fully underway. That's how serious we were about our vow.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
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What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.: Alice Kahn
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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.: Elizabeth Goudge
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager.": William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
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Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.: Joss Whedon, Twitter, 06-27-13
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You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.: David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.: Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Journals, 1839