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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Personally I have struggled massively with the dilemma of talent vs desire. Choosing desire may not always be the easiest thing to do. It may seem a waste to leave those natural talents behind and strike out in a new direction. But at least you’ll feel alive.: Meri Williams, Talent vs Desire, 05-29-06
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.: Unknown
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A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.: Robert M. Hamilton
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He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.: John Mason Brown (1900 - 1969), drama critic
It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.: Warren Buffett (1930 - )
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Instructions to his son Johnny in the biography "John Adams" by David McCullough (p. 19)
One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.: Robertson Davies
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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.: Tina Fey, Max 60 Seconds, 2008
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.: Thomas Bailey, 'Leaves from a Notebook,' Ponkapog Papers, 1903
Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.: Elie Wiesel (1928 - )
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People are fond of spouting out the old clich%uFFFD about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure. Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893)
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