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I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.: Lord Brabazon (1884 - 1964)
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We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.: Eli Attie, House M.D., Dying Changes Everything, 2008
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.: David Russell, I Heart Huckabee's
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Be not slow to visit the sick.: Ecclesiastes
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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.: Ed Gardner
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I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.: Roger Moore (1927 - )
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He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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I try to avoid looking backward and keep looking upward.: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.: Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)
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So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.: Caleb Carr, 'The Angel of Darkness', 1997
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
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Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.: Unknown
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Never regret something that once made you smile.: Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.: Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948)
The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992
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