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Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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We made a solemn vow not to take any job outside of show business. We borrowed money from parents and friends, rather than take that lethal job waiting tables. This forced us to take any job offered to us. Anything. We once did a show in the middle of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia as part of a fashion show on a hot July night while all around our stage, a race-riot was fully underway. That's how serious we were about our vow.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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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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A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.: William Penn (1644 - 1718)
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.: Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
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People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.: Thich Nhat Hanh
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Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.: Quentin Crisp
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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Even the most dangerous look less threatening when they are dead.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 07-09-08
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.: Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
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Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.: A. Lawrence Lowell (1856 - 1943)
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.: Kenneth Tynan
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A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.: David Coblitz
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)