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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.: Billy Wilder (1906 - 2002)
What music is more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.: E. W. Dijkstra
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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.: Robert Anton Wilson
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.: Graffito
Nothing you can't spell will ever work.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
If you’re not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won’t combat the caloric intake.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
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You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.: Lawrence Bixby
I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.: Garry Shandling (1949 - )
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877), "Biographical Studies", 1863
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Deeds, not words shall speak me.: John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.: Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.: Muriel Spark (1918 - )