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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.: Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"
Only sick music makes money today.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Der Fall Wagner, Section 5
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The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), (attributed)
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.: Jay Leno (1950 - )
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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I thought about how wonderfully strange it would be to live in a place where almost everything had been built by the dead.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.: Pat Paulsen
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.: Margo Kaufman
Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.: Shakti Gawain
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If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.: Gordon R. Dickson
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.: Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley, 1963
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.: Robert Morley
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I have found that everything wants to kill you. For some things, like fast food, or riding a bike, it just takes longer.: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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