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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
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A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.: Dan Seligman, in 'Forbes Magazine'
Babies are cool, until you've done everything to do with 'em and you get bored. That's why T.V. shows about babies don't last more than a year.: Gregory Thomas Garcia, Alan Kirschenbaum, Raising Hope, Burt Rocks, November 30, 2010
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Never fight an inanimate object.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.: Gerry Spence, 'How to Argue and Win Every Time'
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It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.: Alec Bourne
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We don't always get to choose what we love.: Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.: William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959
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There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.: Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959)
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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You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.: Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Gran Prix, 1994
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.: Bill Vaughan
It is a wise father that knows his own child.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II, sc. 2
I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.: Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-23-2006
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You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.: Elizabeth Janeway, Between Myth and Morning, 1974
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.: Philip Adams
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I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)