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Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.: Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
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Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.: Peter Minard
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.: Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.: Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity.: John Mitchell Mason
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Reason should direct and appetite obey.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.: Hugh Prather
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.: Baltasar Gracian
Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it.: Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965), The Courage to Be
Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.: Russell R. McIntyre
If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try it for four. If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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