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- No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.
- Marvin Minsky
- Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
- Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
- Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
- It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
- George Sand (1804 - 1876)
- People fail forward to success.
- Mary Kay Ash
- Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
- I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
- Patricia Moyes
- It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
- I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Anthem, 1946
- It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.
- Sue Grafton (1940 - ), 'H' Is for Homicide, 1991
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