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Things are only impossible until they're not.: Jean-Luc Picard, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.: Sir Robert Hutchinson
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.: Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
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A waist is a terrible thing to mind.: Jane Caminos
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.: Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
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I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.: Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)
A hug is a wonderful thing. It makes you feel wanted, needed, and loved all at the same time.: Gregory Garcia and Dan Coscino, Raising Hope, Happy Halloween, October 26, 2010
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.: Shakti Gawain
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.: Bill Gates (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
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Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 07-05-04
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), in Christian Science
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There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
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We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)