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- Hell is full of musical amateurs.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Vedanta for the Western World, 1945
- The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
- When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), The World as I See It.
- I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
- Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005), Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004
- If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - ), as quoted by Joe Garagiola on the Jack Paar show, NBC 1963
- Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), Tender is the Night
- The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737
- One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
- Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
- Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
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