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If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.: Shimon Peres (1923 - )
Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tempest'
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.: Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.: Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978
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Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.: Marquis de Condorcet (1743 - 1794)
I bet the human brain is a kludge.: Marvin Minsky
Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world.: Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan: Back On The Street
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It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.: Bill Vaughan
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.: Raymond Lindquist
It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.: Indian Proverb
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