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I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977), In the film A Day at the Races
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.: Jean Houston
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Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), Faust
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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.: Bill Gates (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
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If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), Good Housekeeping, June 2011
The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself.: Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Chewed Up, 2008
You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.: John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.: Ed Macauley
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.: Rita Rudner
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Geometry and Experience", January 27, 1921
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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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The only paradise is paradise lost.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
People find life entirely too time-consuming.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000