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I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.: Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.: Margaret Lee Runbeck
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.: Vernon Sanders Law
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Live always in the best company when you read.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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If you have the creative urge, it isn't going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 30, 08-22-04
For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.: Clarence E. Hodges
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.: Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.: Unknown
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Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.: Unknown
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Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.: Toni Cade Bambara
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed)
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Hello seeker! Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute.: Firesign Theatre
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.: Unknown
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Dilbert Future