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To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.: Jack Handey (1949 - )
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Cat Orgy, 1999
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There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.: Bono (1960 - ), Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
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There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.: Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.: Hodding Carter
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It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.: Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.: J. S. Bryan
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
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Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003
What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, #1615, March 2010
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
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Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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Maybe I want strangers to think I’m cool since people who actually know me don’t.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008