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The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.: Gordon Atkinson, reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4, 2003
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.: Greg Garcia, Raising Hope, Dead Tooth, 09-28-10
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When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.: Claude Swanson (1862 - 1939)
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.: Kathleen A. Sutton
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.: Roger van der Heide, TED: Why Light Needs Darkness, 2011
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.: King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)
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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago. Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 14. Dying young is overrated., 08-22-04
I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.: Frank Deford