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Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Essays: Of Building, 1623
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.: Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Measure for Measure'
I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out (a) just say 'Thank you' and sign the thing, and (b) smile in the picture, because if you try to just half-smile you're going to look constipated.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.: Robert Byrne
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.: Rodney Carrington
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.: Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me: Jimmy Buffett, Song Title
Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world.: Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan: Back On The Street
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Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.: Russell R. McIntyre
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.: Ellen DeGeneres
Nothing in life is promised except death.: Kanye West