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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love, 1978
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Social Relations"
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.: Fletcher Knebel
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.: Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.: David Letterman (1947 - )
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.: Carl Reiner
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), Letter to her brother, 1894
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.: Bradley's Bromide
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.: Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), 20th Anniversary DVD
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.: David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.: Felicia Day, Geek and Sundry, State of the Sundry, 03-25-13
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.: Rita Mae Brown
Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.: Frank Thomas, Disney Animator, When asked to give advice to young animators
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Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), The People, Yes (1936)
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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The world belongs to the energetic.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)