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I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.: Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users, 07-22-06
If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.: Yogi Berra (1925 - ), as quoted by Joe Garagiola on the Jack Paar show, NBC 1963
You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
When things are at their worst I find something always happens.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.: Eve Babitz
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Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.: Sir Robert Hutchinson
Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.: Robert Newton Peck, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die'
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992), Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), 1908
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
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The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.: Michael Friedman
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.: Abba Eban (1915 - 2002)
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.: Leo Rosten (1908 - )
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I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.: Monica Baldwin
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.: Alan Dean Foster, "To the Vanishing Point"
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Vedanta for the Western World, 1945