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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.: De La Lastra's Law
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.: William Bridges
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.: Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
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Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.: David Letterman (1947 - )
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.: Margaret Bonnano
I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
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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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It is fun to be in the same decade with you.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), in a letter to Winston Churchill
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.: E. W. Dijkstra
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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.: Aaron McGruder, Boondocks, 07-04-04
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
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I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.: Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.: Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
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