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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.: Earl Mac Rauch, from "Buckaroo Bansai"
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Where facts are few, experts are many.: Donald R. Gannon
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May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.: Hadewijch of Antwerp
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.: Martin Mull (1943 - )
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The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.: David Richerby
Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.: Wil Wheaton, WWdN: In Exile, 12-14-2011
So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.': Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.: Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995), One Fat Englishman (1963)
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.: Howard Dietz
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.: Evan Davis
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.: Woody Allen (1935 - ), My Speech to the Graduates