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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.: W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)
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No man is an Island, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine...: John Donne (1572 - 1631), Devotions XVII
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
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You can cover a great deal of country in books.: Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912)
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Mostly Harmless"
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The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.: Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.: Konrad Lorenz (1903 - 1989)
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A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.: Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.: Rebecca Beard
They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on.: Gregory Thomas Garcia, Elijah Aron, Jordan Young, Raising Hope, Cheaters, April 2011
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.: Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
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The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.: Martin Mull (1943 - )
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.: George Best
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, January 21, 1838
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You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.: David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
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No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of few and carried in the hearts of many.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech, San Francisco, May 13, 1903
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion, Act 2