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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
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What we play is life.: Louis Armstrong (1900 - 1971)
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.: Margaret Cho, I'm The One That I Want, 1999
Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.: George Ade (1866 - 1944)
Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards.: Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde, Northern Exposure, Roots, 1991
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
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Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.': Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-25-06
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Road Not Taken
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.: Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
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One of the common causes of serious difficulty takes the form of parental self-discovery. The newly adopted child brings out submerged feelings or behavior in his parents that make them dislike themselves. This can be such a severe blow to their self- esteem that they must eradicate the cause of their distress. Sometimes the only way that parents are able to do that is by returning the child.: Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978
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To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd.: Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.': Dan Parker
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.: Anonymous
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.: Doctor Who
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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.: William Baziotes
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