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- Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), Essay on Criticism
- There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.
- Harriet Van Horne
- Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
- Harriet Van Horne
- Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... without the satisfaction.
- Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 07-22-06
- No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
- Here’s my theory about meetings and life; the three things you can’t fake are erections, competence and creativity. That’s why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say, 'Mmmmmm. Interesting.' If pressed, they’ll add, 'I’ll have to get back to you on that.' Then they don’t say anything else.
- Douglas Coupland
- If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
- Doug Larson
- Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- It matters if you just don't give up.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
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