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You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable.: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, A Wing and a Prayer, 1994
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To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.: Edward Sellner
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable!: R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 11-06-06
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.: Sheila Graham
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
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When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Thoughts on Various Subjects
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Casting Call, 10-21-13
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Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.: King Charles I, of England
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Lives of the Poets
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?: Dick Clark
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The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee.: Tellis Frank