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Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
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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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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.: Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 - )
I could prove God statistically.: George Gallup (1901 - 1984)
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Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.: Amy Vanderbilt (1908 - 1974)
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
The report of my death was an exaggeration.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), New York Journal, June 2, 1897
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The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.: Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
A joke's a very serious thing.: Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762
Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.: Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004
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In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.: Mogens Jallberg
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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.: Dorothy Day (1897 - 1980), The Long Loneliness, 1952
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), "Artist Descending a Staircase"
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), 'I Remember, I Believe,' The Pursuit of Justice, 1964
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My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXLVII
Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.: Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. In the meantime, you%uFFFDre better off going out into the big, wide world, having some adventures and refilling your well. Trying to create when you don%uFFFDt feel like it is like making conversation for the sake of making conversation.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.: Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
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