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Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.: Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
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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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I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.: Leo Rosten (1908 - )
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God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.: Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer…
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Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.: Irma Kurtz, Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 2003
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
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If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.: Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 2001
Keep cool and you command everybody.: Louis de Saint-Just (1767 - 1794)
Things are only impossible until they're not.: Jean-Luc Picard, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
The future will erase everything—there’s no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.: John Green (1977 - ), An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.: Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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