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The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.: Scott Adams (1957 - )
The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), Mere Christianity
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.: Ugo Betti, Struggle Till Dawn
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.: Andy Rooney (1919 - )
Everything you can imagine is real.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it.: Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a Winner
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.: Colette (1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.: Chilo
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
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