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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...: Donald Barthelme
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.: Ann Richards
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.: Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), advice to writers
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We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.: Desmond Morris
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 6, 08-22-04
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.: Whoopi Goldberg
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.: Phyllis Diller
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
We only do well the things we like doing.: Colette (1873 - 1954), Prisons and Paradise, 1932
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.: Clement Atlee
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Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.': Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice
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I live in the present due to the constraints of the Space-Time Continuum.: Hank Green
The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.: Erica Jong
You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.: Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951
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Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
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