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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.: Jackie Joyner-Kersee (1962 - )
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.: Doug Larson
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I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.: Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.: Doug Larson
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.: Robin Norwood
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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Some people make headlines while others make history.: Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in Time Magazine
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The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.: Willie Tyler
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Letters to Lucilius, 100 A.D.
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Sometimes ya gotta do stuff 'cause it's expected of ya, not 'cause of anything else.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 07-09-08
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)
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.: Bradley's Bromide
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), What the Dead Men Say, 1954
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.: Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Interview, Mcsweeneys.net