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You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.: Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Gran Prix, 1994
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?: George Wallace
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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There comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly know who he is.: Brian Buckner, True Blood, Plaisir d'amour, 2008
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.: Bill Vaughan
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), 1903
The more you chase money, the harder it is to catch it.: Mike Tatum, Cashing In or Selling Out, SXSW 2006
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If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
Vigorous writing is concise.: William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
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In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.: Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909 - 1993), in All About Eve
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Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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