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There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.: James Joyce (1882 - 1941)
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We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.: Dennis Miller
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.: Edward De Bono
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.: Lyman Beecher (1775 - 1863)
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.: Oswald Spengler (1880 - 1936)
Charity sees the need not the cause.: German Proverb
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Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.: Basil King
Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877
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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.: Olin Miller
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.: Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.: William James (1842 - 1910)
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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)