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The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.: Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), An Enemy of the People, 1882
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.: George Ade (1866 - 1944)
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Travels in Alaska by John Muir, 1915, chapter 1
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Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.: James Rippe, M.D.
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
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It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mister Sandman, 1994
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.: Dick Gregory (1932 - )
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When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.: Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
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Art has never been made while thinking of art.: Niko Stumpo, The Wooster Collective, December 2006
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The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.: George Lucas (1944 - ), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.: Jane Howard, "Families"
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We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)
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