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Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement.: Colby Dorr Dam
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.: Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
It's not about vein' mad at everything. It's about bein' REALLY mad at the right stuff.: Ice T., Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, 06-13-12
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.: e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.: Colin Powell (1937 - )
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Family Feud, 1993
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.: Elias Schwartz
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
The first rule of business, is never sell something you love. Otherwise, you may as well be selling your children.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 13, 08-22-04
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.: Robert Copeland
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