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It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.: Toni Morrison (1931 - ), Beloved
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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.: Juan Ramon Jiminez
Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.: Thomas Heatherwick, TED, Building the Seed Cathedral, March 2011
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There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
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Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.: George Lois
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There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
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Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.: Anonymous
None are so busy as the fool and knave.: John Dryden (1631 - 1700), The Medal, 1682
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.: Mary Stewart
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?: Katharine Graham
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), L'Envoi, 1882
Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.: Meladee McCarty
The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.: Seth MacFarlane, The Family Guy
Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.: David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008