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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.: Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
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If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me: Jimmy Buffett, Song Title
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....: Carl Zwanzig
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.: Sidney J. Harris
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I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.: John Constable (1776 - 1837)
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Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.: Robert Byrne
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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
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Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.: Swedish Proverb
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The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.: Henry James (1843 - 1916), from his essay about the rules of writing
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Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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We're all in this alone.: Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
He talked with more claret than clarity.: Susan Ertz