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The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
I shall not pretend that I do not prefer to have people adore me rather than revile me, but I have always found that it was far easier for me to suffer the disapprobation of others than to amend my behaviour in order to find favour with them.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.: E. F. Schumacher
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.: Unknown
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I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), quoted by Time, June 9, 1975
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations, 200 A.D.
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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.: Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.: Sophia Loren (1934 - )
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