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- I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
- Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
- The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
- Frank Wilczek (1951 - )
- In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self Reliance"
- No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
- Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
- The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
- Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
- You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
- Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948)
- I'm a jerk to everyone. Best way to protect yourself from lawsuits.
- David Hoselton, House M.D., Guardian Angels, 2007
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