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USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.: David Letterman (1947 - )
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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.: J. B. Priestley (1894 - 1984)
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), (attributed)
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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.: Chuck Norris (1940 - )
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.: G. Gordon Liddy
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.: Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962 - )
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.: Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895)
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.: Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.: Umberto Eco (1932 - )
Reason should direct and appetite obey.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.: Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.: Unknown
I am a deeply superficial person.: Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.: Sue Grafton (1940 - ), 'H' Is for Homicide, 1991