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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.: James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
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I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.: Richard Lewis
Sometimes ya gotta do stuff 'cause it's expected of ya, not 'cause of anything else.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 07-09-08
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.: Foster's Law
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.: G. H. Hardy (1877 - 1947)
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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.: Sharon Salzberg
Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), Cosmos (Blues for a Red Planet)
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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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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Vedanta for the Western World, 1945
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.: Charles Luckman
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
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Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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We begin to see that the completion of an important project has every right to be dignified by a natural grieving process. Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.: Anne Wilson Schaef