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Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.: John Updike (1932 - )
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Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.: David M. Ogilvy
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.: Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.: Harold Rosenberg
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I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.: Jack Handey (1949 - )
How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2003
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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.: Russell Green
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To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Hyperion, 1839
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.: Wilfred A. Peterson
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That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.: William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966)
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.: Farrah Gray
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Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world.: Goldie Hawn (1945 - )
God help those who do not help themselves.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)