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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Someone's boring me. I think it's me.: Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)
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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.: Joseph F. Newton
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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, One, 2003
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.: Martina Navratilova (1956 - )
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We made a solemn vow not to take any job outside of show business. We borrowed money from parents and friends, rather than take that lethal job waiting tables. This forced us to take any job offered to us. Anything. We once did a show in the middle of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia as part of a fashion show on a hot July night while all around our stage, a race-riot was fully underway. That's how serious we were about our vow.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.: Shimon Peres (1923 - )
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.: Erica Jong
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If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects, bk. 11:11
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.: Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters"
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.: Ben Stein
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)