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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Malheureux'
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
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A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
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In the end, everything is a gag.: Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.: Dorothy C. Fisher (1879 - 1958), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
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I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003
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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.: Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
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There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.: Cyrus H. Curtis (1850 - 1933)
We are always the same age inside.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.: Sir Richard Steele
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The world is my lobster.: Henry J. Tillman
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
I felt like poisoning a monk.: Umberto Eco (1932 - ), on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.: Peter De Vries
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.: Dan McKinnon
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)