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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.: John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
It is bad luck to be superstitious.: Andrew W. Mathis
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.: Mary MacCracken
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I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.: Brian Eno, Wired 1/99, p. 176
But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mite Makes Right, 1994
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I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.: Japanese Proverb
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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.: Ted Turner
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To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.: Michael Hanson
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Anthem, 1946
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.: Doris Lessing
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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)