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All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.: Unknown
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People will buy anything that is one to a customer.: Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.: John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.: H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937), "The Call of Cthulhu", first line
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible.: Josephine demott Robinson, O Magazine, December 2003
Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.: Comte de Buffon (1707 - 1788)
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.: Baltasar Gracian
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.: Abba Eban (1915 - 2002)
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.: Ken Doherty