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Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.: Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
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Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
They always talk who never think.: Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721)
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.: John Hay (1838 - 1905), Distichs, latter 19th century
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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "Is Shakespeare Dead?"
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
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Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.: Clive Barnes
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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.: Peter Borden
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.: Nora Ephron
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.: Anonymous, often attributed to Dan Quayle
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.: Alice Walker (1944 - ), Living by the Word, 1988
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.: Coleman Cox