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Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.: David Letterman (1947 - )
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics'
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When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 12, 2003
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There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.: Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
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If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
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Reading is no substitute for action.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 07-26-08
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
It's not about the writing. It's about the feelings behind the words.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.: Kurdish Proverb
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.: Krishnamurti
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.: Jerry Flint, in Forbes
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface
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The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago. Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 14. Dying young is overrated., 08-22-04
Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.: Kazuo Inamori
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.: Salma Hayek
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.: Albert Pine
No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.: Meg Cabot, (Jenny Carroll), Sanctuary, 2002