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The unspoken word never does harm.: Kossuth
In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-23-05
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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Enough organization, enough lists and we think we can control the uncontrollable.: John Mankiewicz, House, The Socratic Method, 2004
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.: Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness"
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.: Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
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If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The First Part of King Henry the IV'
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.: Teena Booth, Falling From Fire
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Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 06-21-05
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Good habits result from resisting temptation.: Ancient Proverb
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.: Lord Macaulay, review of Lucy Aikin, 'Life and Writings of Addison,' 1943
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To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
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Interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do and nobody calls her disabled.: Aimee Mullins, Ted Conference, How My Legs Give Me Super-Powers, February 2009
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune