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Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.: Andy Rooney (1919 - )
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.: Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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One's life is not as fixed as one believes. Surprises may lie in store for you, the unexpected often tends to happen, sometimes bringing in its train the most delightful change in one's life or circumstances.: Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.: Golda Meir (1898 - 1978)
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.: Muriel Spark (1918 - )
That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.: Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.: Tommy Cooper
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Fools rush in where fools have been before.: Unknown
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School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.: Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-09-11
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.: Anne-Sophie Swetchine
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.: Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
Good men must be affectionate men.: Samuel Richardson (1689 - 1761)