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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.: Thomas J. Watson
My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.': Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.: Will Cuppy
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History never looks like history when you are living through it.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002), quoted by Bill Moyers
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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.: Anonymous, Graffito
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Now that I've relinquished my fantasies of all the people I wish I could be, and stopped feeling guilty about [them], I have more time for the things that I truly enjoy.: Gretchen Rubin, Good Housekeeping, June 2011
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
What's another word for Thesaurus?: Steven Wright (1955 - )
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.: Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.: Peter De Vries
If you don't risk anything you risk even more.: Erica Jong
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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.: Sam Ewing
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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.: Ellen DeGeneres, (attributed)
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Journals,' 1836