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To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.: Robert Orben
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The things you own end up owning you.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
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Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.: Carlos Castaneda
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Change your thoughts and you change your world.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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These days an income is something you can't live without--or within.: Tom Wilson, "Ziggy" (comic)
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.: Edward Chapin
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Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.: Sheila Graham
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.: Sir Julian Huxley (1887 - 1975)
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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.: Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, Aphorisms, 1905
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Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Life of Boerhaave
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.: Gail Godwin
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), John Bull's Other Island (1907) act 2
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
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There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937), The Last Asset, 1904
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.: Martha Grimes