When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
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-- William Shakespeare "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
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-- Robert Frost The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
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Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
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-- Navaho saying I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
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- Clarence Darrow, Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
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"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
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-- Ernest Rutherford When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
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-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Arts and Entertainment
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-- W. C. Fields Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
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-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
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-- Lyn Karol Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
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-- George Bernard Shaw The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
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-- Winston Churchill Arts and Entertainment "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
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-- Sigmund Freud When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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-- Eleanor Roosevelt Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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-- Thomas Carlyle To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
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-- S. T. Coleridge Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Arts and Entertainment The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
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-- Niels Bohr I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
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