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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.: Sam Ewing
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The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.: Wayne Dyer
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.: Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963), The Bell Jar, 1963
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.: Cecil Baxter
Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.: Herbert W. Boyer, co-founder of Genentech, Inc.
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.: Kent Nerburn
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.: William Wirt (1772 - 1834)
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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.: Nancy Reagan (1921 - )
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.: Peter Steiner, cartoon in The New Yorker, July 5, 1993
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.: Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.: Israel Salanter