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I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech in New York, September 7, 1903
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To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
1. Never tell everything at once.: Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.: Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten: Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.: Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), 'Economy,' Walden, 1854
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War is not nice.: Barbara Bush (1925 - )
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In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.: Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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Well done is better than well said.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.: Leo J. Burke
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