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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.: Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948)
Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.: L. L. Henderson
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The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.: Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
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The wisest men follow their own direction.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.: Indian Proverb
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The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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I've accepted that I'm not going to die of natural causes, [but] getting killed 'cuz you're naturally a dick seems like natural causes to me.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Natural Causes, 06-07-13
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Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown [in today's U.S.] as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that she or he has a medical problem. It should not be applied only to the most advanced cases, as is present practice. Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one. The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice.: Joel Fuhrman, M.D., Fasting And Eating For Health
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.: Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 02-01-09
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.: J. K. Rowling
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
Nothing else exists when art does.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux, 2004
Honor does not have to be defended.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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The crowd gives the leader new strength.: Evenius
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Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Essays: Of Building, 1623
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.: Pierre Gallois
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