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There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
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Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
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Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
Trust one who has gone through it.
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Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), The Aeneid
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
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Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
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Henry L. Stimson (1867 - 1950)
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
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Alec Bourne
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
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Dick Cavett (1936 - )
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
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William Gibson (1948 - )
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.
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Grenville Kleiser
The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.
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Elmer Davis (1890 - 1958)
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
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Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
He not busy being born is busy dying.
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Bob Dylan (1941 - )
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
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Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.
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Robert Townsend
Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.
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Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)
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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
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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