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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when the nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.: Alan Bennett
You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.: Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), (Dear Abby)
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Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.: Mike Myers
Above all things, reverence yourself.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
I'm as pure as the driven slush.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.: Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Complain to one who can help you.: Yugoslav Proverb
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How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Diaries of Adam and Eve
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.: Abba Eban (1915 - 2002)
That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.: Ken Hakuta
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In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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