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Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), on the radio program The Big Show, Dec. 17, 1950
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Music is essentially useless, as life is.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.: John Gaule
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
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Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.: Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
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To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.: Berton Averre
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.: Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.: Margaret Halsey
But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.: Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple.: Christina Petrowsky
I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?: Ronnie Shakes
Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.: Ruth Stout
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The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.: Scott Adams (1957 - )