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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.: James Madison (1751 - 1836)
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.: Norman Douglas
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.: James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972)
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I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.: Frank Deford
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.: Robert A. Humphrey
We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.: Marie Beyon Ray
It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.: John Updike (1932 - )
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 'Rhesus'
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.: Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Thoughts on Various Subjects
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.: Willie Shoemaker
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