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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.
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Mogens Jallberg
Genius is of no country.
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Charles Churchill
There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.
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H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003
How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
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Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'experience,' 1580-88
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
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Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
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Edwin P. Whipple
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
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Anonymous
It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.
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Sue Grafton (1940 - ), 'H' Is for Homicide, 1991
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.
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Felicia Day, Geek and Sundry, State of the Sundry, 03-25-13
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
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Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.
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Chilo
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
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.
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Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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