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The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 11-11-04
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.: Dorothee Solle
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.: Minna Thomas Antrim
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.: Sir William Drummond
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.: C. Kent Wright
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.: Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
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I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.: Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.: Wayne Dyer
I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.: Roger Moore (1927 - )
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.: Joan D. Vinge, Catspaw