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A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971), No One Here Gets Out Alive
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.: Henry Allen
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.: Jack London (1876 - 1916)
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), quoted in Saturday Review, Aug. 25, 1962
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Honesty is the best image.: Tom Wilson, Ziggy (comic)
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You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
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Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them. Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.: Barbara Mikkelson, snopes.com, May 15, 2001
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
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Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.: John Churton Collins
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[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.: Thomas Dekker (1572 - 1632)
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