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America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08
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I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.: John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.: John Lennon (1940 - 1980)
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), Interview, April 30, 1978
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
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Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.: Doris Egan, House M.D., The Right Stuff, 2007
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Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.: Anthony Starr
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I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.: Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.: Robert Newton Peck, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die'
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.: Meryl Streep (1949 - )
Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, I Heart NY, 2002