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If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.: Dean Martin
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Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.: Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.: George Lucas (1944 - ), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.: Max L. Forman
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.: George E. Woodberry
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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.: Bill Lyon
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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.': Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity and boost our economy.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)
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You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), Berenice
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Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.: Penn Jillette (1955 - )
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.: Solomon Short
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Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)