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- They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
- Garrison Keillor (1942 - )
- Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
- Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
- It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-16-05
- The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
- John Gaule
- A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
- Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)
- A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 10-26-07
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