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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.: Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 5/22/89
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible.: Josephine demott Robinson, O Magazine, December 2003
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.: Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Gran Prix, 1994
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.: Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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I’m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I’m discovering that things were never in my hands.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 2, 2003
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.: Norman Cousins (1915 - 1990)
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'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.: Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909), The Country of the Pointed Firs, 1896
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.: Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
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Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.: Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978
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Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.: James Magary
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
He talked with more claret than clarity.: Susan Ertz