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Knowledge is power.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
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The world is round; it has no point.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
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Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
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For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.: A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
A joke's a very serious thing.: Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.: John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.: Doris Egan, House M.D., House vs. God, 2006
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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.: Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.: Peter De Vries
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.: Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
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Live forever or die in the attempt.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.: Marston Bates
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.: Jerry Chin
It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly... 'I trust you; do what you must,' life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.: Olga Ilyin
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Economy, 1854
If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me: Jimmy Buffett, Song Title
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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