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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!: Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, September 26, 1712
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Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716
We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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We always felt as if every show was the most important thing in the world, but knew if we bombed, we'd live.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.: Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)
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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.: Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)
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May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.: Mary Caroline Davies
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.: Sydney J. Harris
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.: Rose Cherin
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.: Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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It has all been very interesting.: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762), last words, 1762
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are.: Kurt Cobain (1967 - 1994)
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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