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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
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The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.: Elmer Davis (1890 - 1958)
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.: Aaron Rose
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.: Umberto Eco (1932 - )
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHEATON dot NET, 12-16-2013
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
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No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.: Wendy Wasserstein (1950 - 2005), Isn't It Romantic, 1983
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A Hospital is no place to be sick.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.: Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-29-06
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.: Golda Meir (1898 - 1978)
History never looks like history when you are living through it.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002), quoted by Bill Moyers
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When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.: Anzia Yezierska
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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The meek shall inherit the earth? Well... I don't think so. If by meek you mean friendly and introverted, okay maybe, but if by meek you mean unwilling to take a chance, then never. If I was a betting man and I had to wager on who I thought would inherit the earth, my money would be on the curious.: Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.: Alan Corenk
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