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-- Robert Browning Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
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- Mahatma Gandhi The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
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-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Arts and Entertainment
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
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"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa 'Tis better to have loved and lost
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Not to anticipate is already to moan.
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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Arts and Entertainment If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
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-- Dale Carnegie We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
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-- John Stuart Mill Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
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-- Mike Adams A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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-- Samuel Johnson Arts and Entertainment
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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-- Robert Orben In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
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-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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-- Indian proverb Arts and Entertainment
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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-- Vince Lombardi Arts and Entertainment There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
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-- Epicurus Arts and Entertainment The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
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-- Abraham Lincoln A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
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-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
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-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
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The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
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-- Garry Trudeau Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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