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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.: A. Whitney Brown
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We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.: Ethel Barrett
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.: Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
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Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
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Strive for excellence, not perfection.: H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003
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I'm of the mind that even people who have limitations, if they have a curiosity, they will find a way to explore it.: Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
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Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.: Stephen Nachmanovitch
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
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You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 01-04-04
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