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- Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
- Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
- On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
- Peter Steiner, cartoon in The New Yorker, July 5, 1993
- When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
- Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
- Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticult Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993
- I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Art is science made clear.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
- Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
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