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We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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Cullen Hightower
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
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Brendan Francis
Facts are the enemy of truth.
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Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Man of La Mancha
This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
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Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 03, 2004
The greatest danger to our future is apathy.
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Jane Goodall (1934 - )
We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God’s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.
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Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
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Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
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Jewish Proverb
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
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William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
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Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
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David Broder
Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Life is just one damned thing after another.
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Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
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Ellis Peters
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
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Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
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Chuck Norris (1940 - )
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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