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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare
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Your child can’t hurt you if you don’t accept the hurt. Let it go.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.: Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966)
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.': Sue Halpern, O Magazine, September 2003
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It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.: The Belzer Rabbi
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.: Robert Service (1874 - 1958)
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
ALL things great are wound up with all things little.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.: Jef Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal
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Nearly one-half of all Americans are torsos.: Demetri Martin, On James Corden, Sept. 7, 2018
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.: Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell"
Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.: Lin Yutang
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.: George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)
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