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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.: David Viscott, How to Live with Another Person, 1974
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.: Roger Allen
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.: Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.: Lady Violet Bonham Carter (1887 - 1969)
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.: James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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Blame someone else and get on with your life.: Alan Woods
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.: Larry McMurtry (1936 - ), 'Lonesome Dove'
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Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.: Darrin Weinberg
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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TV is chewing gum for the eyes.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.: Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)
Dreams alone aren't enough to make your belly full.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)