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You suffer a lot more hiding something than if you face up to it.: Alexander Woo, True Blood, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, 2009
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.: Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995), One Fat Englishman (1963)
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006)
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Thoughts on Various Subjects
My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.: Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
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The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'King Henry IV part I'
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.: Esther Dyson, Interview in Time Magazine, October 2005
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One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.: Evenius
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.: Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a Winner
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.: Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
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Dance like it hurts, Love like you need money, Work when people are watching.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Way of the Weasel
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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