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Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.: Pindar (522 BC - 443 BC), 518-438 B.C.
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.: Unknown
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.: Mignon McLaughlin
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.: P. J. Plauger, Computer Language, March 1983
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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006)
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.: Bill Vaughan
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.: Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
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Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
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I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.: Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.: Frank Leahy
The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...: Donald Barthelme
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)