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Guns don't kill people. People who say "Guns don't kill people" kill people. With guns.: Rob Delaney, Twitter
Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?: George Wallace
I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.: Brenda Ueland
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Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 27, 2003
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Answers to Nine Questions"
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.: Margaret Halsey
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?: Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
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Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.: John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)
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