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I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.: Poul Anderson (1926 - 2001)
I am not young enough to know everything.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?: Frank Scully
As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.: Hagar the Horrible
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.: Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Apple Cart" (1930), act I
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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980), In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995)
I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.: Hank Green, Vlogbrothers, Cat GIF Critique, 04-26-13
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I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
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I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.: Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Children should feel loved because they exist, not because they’ve behaved in a certain way.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.: J. B. Priestley (1894 - 1984)
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
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We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.: Harold Bloom (1930 - )
You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
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People age even when you're not looking.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Postive, 07-30-08
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)