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It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.: Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, The Baby Shower, 1998
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.: Jimmy Breslin
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.: Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
Good order is the foundation of all things.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), 'Reflections on the Revolution in France,' 1790
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.: Shakti Gawain
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.: Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters, 2003
Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946), in Richard J. Anobile - "Godfrey Daniels"
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
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Say little, and love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good.: White Eagle
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.: Charles Luckman
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It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. It is essential for our democracy.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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