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Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the chocolates is next to us.: Shlomo Bernartzi, TED Talk: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow, November 2011
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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.: Gerry Spence, 'How to Argue and Win Every Time'
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An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.: Alfred A. Knopf
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There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.: Robert Orben
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.: Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
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In the end, everything is a gag.: Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.: William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966)
Neither should you fret too much about 'writer%uFFFDs block'. If you%uFFFDre looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer%uFFFDs block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you SHOULD feel the need to say something.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.: David Richerby
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)
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Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.: Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see, I have friends in both places.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.: Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.: Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
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Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.: Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989
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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05-01-04
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