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The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 5, 2003
I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.: Zach Braff
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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It's never just a game when you're winning.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.: John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.: Robert Bresson
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'God and the Bible,' 1875
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The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.: From the 1985 movie "Bliss"
Women should be obscene and not heard.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.: Alexander Smith (1830 - 1867)
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
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My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)