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Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.: Kate Winslet, Oscar Acceptance Speech, 02-22-09
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer.: Rita Mae Brown
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.: Senator Everett Dirksen (1896 - 1969)
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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.: Robert Lynd (1879 - 1949), The Blue Lion and Other Essays
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I am a deeply superficial person.: Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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I row after health like a waterman...: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 11-05-09
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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.: Jessie Sampter
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I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.: Cyra McFadden
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.: Saint Basil (329 AD - 379 AD)
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.: Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988), 'Bendigo Shafter'
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.: Ramsay Clark
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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