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Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
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That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown
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Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.: L. L. Henderson
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.: J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
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The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.: Esther Dyson, Interview in Time Magazine, October 2005
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.: Erica Jong
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.: Marcus Bridgstocke
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.: Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
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A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.: Tom Bissell, Truth in Oxiana, 2004
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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.: Maureen Dowd, in 'New York Times'
It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), 'Morals,' 100 A.D.
I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when you’re alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartment’s redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant, 01-10-10
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One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.: Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to relect complexity.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.: Chinese Proverb
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Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.: Burk Hudson
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