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MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.: Doug Ferrari
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Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.: Burk Hudson
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Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.: Nathaniel Branden
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Tempest, Act II scene 1
The best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
There's no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.: Moliere (1622 - 1673)
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.: Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.: Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006)
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma
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Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.: Kathleen Norris
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My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.: Cathy Ladman
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.: Charles Peters
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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1
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