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- There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- You know you're getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate.
- Unknown
- Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
- Max Frisch
- Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
- J. D. Salinger (1919 - )
- Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
- Kenny Ausubel
- Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.
- Unknown
- Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot
- Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
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