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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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He not busy being born is busy dying.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
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Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Creators Syndicate
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Spring Break, 1991
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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act II
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.: Doug Larson
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), Unkempt Thoughts
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.: William H. Borah
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I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
Oregano is the spice of life.: Henry J. Tillman
I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.: Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle, 1948
Dreams alone aren't enough to make your belly full.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005