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It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.: Rosie O'Donnell, Today Show interview, 04-08-08
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We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.: Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
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I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.: Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
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Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.: Dale Carnegie
The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.: Ellen DeGeneres
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.: Franklin P. Jones
The things you own end up owning you.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
Never promise more than you can perform.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
A friend is a second self.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.: C. V. R. Thompson
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
History is more or less bunk.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Divinatione
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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Black Cottage
I am interested in the homeless, but they're a symptom. You're treating a symptom and the disease rages on and consumes the human race. I'm talking about an overhaul of the system: putting power in different hands.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future.: Shirley Trusty Corey
All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943