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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.: Leo Rosten (1908 - )
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.: Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960)
A problem isn’t a problem until it actually happens.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), "The Little Prince", 1943
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I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.: Elizabeth Janeway, Between Myth and Morning, 1974
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.': Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.: Alfred E. Wiggam
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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, #1615, March 2010
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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
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You create your opportunities by asking for them.: Patty Hansen, Prevention Magazine, 11-05
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.: Russell P. Askue
I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'utile et de l'honnete,' 1580-88
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.: Denzel Washington (1954 - )
Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996