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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.: Doris Lessing, O Magazine, October 2003
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Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.: Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.: Terry Pratchett
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.: Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.: R. D. Laing
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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.: Latin Proverb
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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.: Edmund Wilson (1895 - 1972)
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Reality continues to ruin my life.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.: Rita Rudner
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Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.: Margaret Atwood (1939 - ), Cat's Eye, 1988