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Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.
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Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes"
Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?'
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Steven Wright (1955 - )
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
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William Cobbett (1763 - 1835)
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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Sophia Loren (1934 - )
When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity.
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Maria Irene Fornes
A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.
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John Heywood (1497 - 1580)
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
Even the great get greater by doing more of it.
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Colleen Wainwright, communitcatrix, 04-10-2006
Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.
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Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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