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I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), 20th Anniversary DVD
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.: Bob Edwards
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He talked with more claret than clarity.: Susan Ertz
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.: Christina Baldwin
Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Dude, marriage is the 'get out of loneliness free' card in the Monopoly game of life.: Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz, Home on the Strange, 11-09-07
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
An honor is not diminished for being shared.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986
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Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards.: Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde, Northern Exposure, Roots, 1991
Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?: Artemus Ward (1834 - 1867)
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.: Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
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Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.: Dianne Hales
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
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Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.: Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy Comic, 08-15-07
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.: George Tooker
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.: Wendell Johnson
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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