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Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.: Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"
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Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.: George Lucas (1944 - ), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, November 2009
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.: Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03
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If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798
The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.: Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
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Women should be obscene and not heard.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.: Darrin Weinberg
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), Poems, Second Series, 1891
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), Valis
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.: Doug Larson
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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.: Isabelle Eberhardt
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The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.: Jane Wagner