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Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Energy is eternal delight.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.: Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-29-06
If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging.: Joe Martin, Mister Boffo
I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.: John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
Facts are the enemy of truth.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Man of La Mancha
Symbiosis is a much more powerful agent of change, and a much more successful one.: David Walton, Genius Plague, 2017
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Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.: Robert Orben
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I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916
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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.: Shelley Winters (1922 - 2006)
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.: John Hope Franklin
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.: John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
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So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.: Caleb Carr, 'The Angel of Darkness', 1997
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), quoted by Lorne A. Adrain in 'The Most Important Thing I Know'
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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you.: Tina Fey, Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, 2009
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For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.: A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.: Alexander Smith (1830 - 1867)
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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.: James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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