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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.: Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960)
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Journal, 1772
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.: Margaret Halsey
During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.: Fritjof Capra, physicist
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Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.: Robertson Davies
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!: Louise Bogan
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Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.: Neil Diamond (1941 - ), Cracklin' Rose
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.: Unknown
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.: Arab Proverb
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Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
You gotta dream? You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it, period.: Steven Conrad, Pursuit of Happyness, 2006
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Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.: Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-28-06
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Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )