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I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.: Will Durst
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Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.: Anonymous
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
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Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.: J. H. Holmes
People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.: Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-29-06
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.: Terry Pratchett
I've decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 06-04-08
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
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When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway.: Clyde B. Aster
I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.: Craig Newmark (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), 'Eleanora,' 1842
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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.: Farmers' Almanac, 1978
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The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.: Ellen Glasglow
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.: William J. Broad