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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.: Jean Kerr
The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.: Alice Thomas Ellis
There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.: Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.: Mark Jenkins, "To Timbuktu"
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.: English Proverb
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
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The shortest route to getting things done is just do it.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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There is no Them, there is only Us. Some of Us think this or some of Us think that, but we're all Us.: Lisa Williams, Us and Them: A Blog Conversation Survival Guide, SXSW 2006
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.: Langston Coleman
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Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), on the radio program The Big Show, Dec. 17, 1950
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Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.: Carlos Castaneda
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.: Karen Elizabeth Gordon
There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
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I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.: Pat Conroy (1945 - )
I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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