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Only the mediocre are always at their best.: Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.: Mario Puzo (1920 - 1999), 'The Godfather'
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Stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also the only way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.: John Lennon (1940 - 1980)
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.: Rita Rudner
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.: Martin Gardner (1914 - ), "The Mathematical Magic Show"
'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?' 'Well, that would be a start.': Peter Stone, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in "Charade", 1963
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.: Marita Bonner
Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who don’t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if you’re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is what’s important.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
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Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.: Saadi (1184 - 1291)
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.: Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877), "Biographical Studies", 1863
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.: William James (1842 - 1910)
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991