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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.: B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990)
Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), Vesalius in Zante
The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-06
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Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.: Japanese Proverb
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.: Peter McWilliams
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Happy Death
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.: Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.: Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ), Social Studies (1981)