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Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?: Unknown, Dan Fielding in "Night Court"
O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come!: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, 1599-1600
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of the Island, 1915
I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.': Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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Seeing ourselves as others would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.: Franklin P. Jones
Little by little, one travels far.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Things are only impossible until they're not.: Hannah Louise Shearer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, When The Bough Breaks, 1988
It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my curiosty, I want to go there, be a part of whatever it is that's either pushing me or pulling me toward it. That desire for experience has made me very rich in life experience.: Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.: Scott Adams (1957 - )
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.: Peter De Vries
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
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Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
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The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.: Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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