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Death likes it when you play hard to get.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 09-20-12
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Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.: Rita Rudner
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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.: I. F. Stone (1907 - 1989)
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic.": Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005), Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004
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I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?': Jay Leno (1950 - )
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.: Jane Wyman (1914 - )
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Adventure is just bad planning.: Roald Amundsen (1872 - 1928)
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.: R. D. Laing
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.: Charles Spencer