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You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.: Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.: Billy Crystal (1947 - )
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If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.: John Abrams, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.: Erica Jong
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.: James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881), July 12, 1880
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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.: Mary Kay Ash
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-13-05
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It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.: Henry Allen
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.: Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959