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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.: Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
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Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.: Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
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Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.: Robert Orben
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
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Acting like someone you're not is exactly what it takes to realize you're capable of more than you ever knew.: Rob Sheridan, Mad Love, The Young and The Reckless, 2011
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I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.: Herbert Rappaport
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
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There comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly know who he is.: Brian Buckner, True Blood, Plaisir d'amour, 2008
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.: Robert Bresson
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.: Arthur Hays Sulzberger
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.: Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.: Robert Jackson