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I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
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An English Professor, Ohio University
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
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William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
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Robert Fritz
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
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Oriental Proverb
You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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Alan Watts
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
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Mo Udall
You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.
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Meredith Willson, The Music Man
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Alvin Toffler
Do not employ handsome servants.
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Chinese Proverb
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Irv Kupcinet
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
Never regret something that once made you smile.
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Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
A joke's a very serious thing.
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Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
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Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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Terry Pratchett
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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