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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.: Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now!: Michael Landon (1936 - 1991)
Deal with the consequences of your actions, 'cause life ain't no video game.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?: Kelvin Throop III
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Somebody once said that beauty is the passport to success, but it's not a passport. It's a visa and it expires.: Michael J. Mosley and Nicholas Rossiter, The Human Face, 2001
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
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Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.: Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 25. You have to find your own schtick., 08-22-04
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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Think of life as a giant, fat cat you're in charge of. Sometimes you can control it, but other times, it's going to do what it wants and you have to roll with it. And sometimes you can do everything - everything you're s'posed to do- and it'll still shred all the things you hold dear... The only thing you can really do with life is rub its belly and prepare for the worst.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 11-07-2011
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth our powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.: Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852), Address at the laying of the cornerstone of the bunker hill monument
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I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.: William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.: Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), The Physiology of Taste, 1825
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Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.: Joe Theismann, Former quarterback
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations, 200 A.D.
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