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To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.: Michael Hanson
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 07-05-04
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.: Ernest Rutherford (1871 - 1937), in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.: Christine Bovee
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Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
The average person thinks he isn't.: Father Larry Lorenzoni
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.: Ed Norton, Entertainment Weekly
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.: Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963
Worries go down better with soup than without.: Jewish Proverb
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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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When you come to a fork in the road, take it.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see, I have friends in both places.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.: Lenore Hershey
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Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.: Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
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Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)