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Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
Concentration is my motto. First honesty, then industry, then concentration.: Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
I have found that everything wants to kill you. For some things, like fast food, or riding a bike, it just takes longer.: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845), referring to Macaulay
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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.: Eleanor Hamilton
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates'
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), John of the Mountains, 1938
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When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
The way we distinguish ourselves is by showing our individuality.: Elisa Camahort, We Got Naked, Now What, SXSW 2006
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.: Adrian Mitchell
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Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.: Mark Jenkins, "To Timbuktu"
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?: Dr. Robert Schuller
Say little, and love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good.: White Eagle