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Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.: Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.: Georges Duhamel (1884 - 1966)
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I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.: Senator Patrick Leahy (1940 - ), May 1990
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Feel the fear and do it anyway.: Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, 1988
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There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.: Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable.: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, A Wing and a Prayer, 1994
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There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.: Charlize Theron, acceptance speech at Golden Globe Awards, 2004
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 11-06-03
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
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Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-23-05
There is no wisdom without love.: N. Sri Ram
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
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882), Hyperion, 1839
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Let's have some new cliches.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.: Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974
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