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Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin & Hobbes
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), The Crisis, no. 1
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.: Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
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Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, #1615, March 2010
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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator
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The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
The past is finished. There is nothing to b gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.: Rebecca Beard
All marriages are mixed marriages.: Chantal Saperstein
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It's actually easy to tell if your house is haunted: It isn't. Grow up.: Jimmy Carr, Netflix special, 2019
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.: Robert M. Hamilton
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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Honor does not have to be defended.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), Unkempt Thoughts
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.: Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune