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Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.: David T. Wolf (1943 - )
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Be contented when you have got all you want.: Holbrook Jackson
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.: Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683), The Compleat Angler, 1653
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.: Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.: Harriet Lerner
You can observe a lot just by watching.: Yogi Berra (1925 - ), Berra's Law
Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.: Rebecca Johnson, in 'Vogue'
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.: Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
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Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.: Cullen Hightower
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.: Mel Brooks (1926 - )
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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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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.: John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.: Michele Shea
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If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.: Jimmy Buffett
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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.: Edgar Wilson Nye (1850 - 1896), quoted in Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1924
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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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