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Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.: John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
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The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future.: Shirley Trusty Corey
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.: Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), State of Fear
I've accepted that I'm not going to die of natural causes, [but] getting killed 'cuz you're naturally a dick seems like natural causes to me.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Natural Causes, 06-07-13
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 13, 08-22-04
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.: Whoopi Goldberg
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.: Norman Douglas
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We go where our vision is.: Joseph Murphy
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.: Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell"
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.: Wendell Berry
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.: Derek Sivers, TED Talk: Weird, or just different? Nov 2009
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.: Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.: Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)