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If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.: Ben Azai, Mishna
The world is my lobster.: Henry J. Tillman
Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), to his students
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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.: Terry Pratchett
Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.: Dave Meurer, "Daze of Our Wives"
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.: David Hume (1711 - 1776)
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.: Salman Rushdie (1947 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
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Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.: William Hale White
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
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