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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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People are always trying to [mess] up other people's live's by telling lies about 'em. You wanna really [mess] somebody's life up? Tell the truth about 'em. They ain't never gonna be the same.: Brian Buckner, True Blood, Bad Blood, 2010
I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.: Katherine Cebrian
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.: Edward Shepherd Mead
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'God and the Bible,' 1875
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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
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The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.: Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536)
The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.: Pico Iyer, Time
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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.: William Cecil Burleigh
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.: Floyd Dell
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We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), John of the Mountains, 1938
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I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.: Miss Piggy
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.: Rita Rudner
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Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.: Unknown