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- I've never been a millionaire but I just know I'd be darling at it.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
- Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
- Fifteen cents of every twenty-cent stamp goes to storage.
- Louis Rukeyser
- If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
- John Lennon (1940 - 1980)
- I don't travel in circles where people say, 'I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith.' That's just a long-winded religious way to say, 'Shut up.'
- Penn Jillette (1955 - ), NPR interview
- Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.
- Penn Jillette (1955 - ), NPR interview
- Even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision.
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...
- Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969), On The Road, 1957
- The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.
- James Geary, The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
- Every man is condemned to freedom.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Being and Nothingness (1943)
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