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The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Animal Farm"
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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893), act III
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All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 11, 08-22-04
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.: Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
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A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.: Granville Hicks (1901 - 1982)
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.: Frederick Langbridge (1849 - 1923)
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.: Penn Jillette (1955 - )
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
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If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.: Rita Mae Brown
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.: Doug Larson
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?: George Wallace