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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
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-- Oscar Wilde Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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- Carl Sagan The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Books
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Books There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
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-- Albert Einstein The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
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-- George Santayana I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
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-- Mark Twain Books
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Books It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
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-- Abraham Lincoln During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Books
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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-- George Carlin "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
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-- Ernest Dimnet Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
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-- Henry David Thoreau The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
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-- Herbert Hoover Books
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
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-- Albert Einstein To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
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You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
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-- Bob Edwards Books
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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-- Dave Barry Books Hell is other people.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Books
