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I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
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Colette (1873 - 1954), The Last of Cheri, 1926
Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for.
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Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The American Scholar, August 31, 1837
Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
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Ralph Novak
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
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Joan D. Vinge, Catspaw
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), 'The Strenuous Life,' 1900
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
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C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
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Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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Jean Kerr
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
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Grace Murray Hopper (1906 - 1992)
The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
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Michael Friedman
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.
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Kent Nerburn
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
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Meryl Streep (1949 - )
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
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Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone"
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
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John Andrew Holmes
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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