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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth.: David Shore, House M.D., Occam's Razor, 2004
I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.: Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.: Marlon Brando (1924 - 2004)
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)
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I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
It's not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, April 22, 2003
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), "The Brothers Karamazov"
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.: John le Carre (1931 - ), "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy", The New York Times, May 8, 1974
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-2003
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Life is full of obstacle illusions.: Grant Frazier
The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
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