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USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.: David Letterman (1947 - )
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[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.: Thomas Dekker (1572 - 1632)
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A mind too active is no mind at all.: Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)
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How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.: Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time
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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
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 4, 1944-1947
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.: Ashley Montague
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.: Lyman Beecher (1775 - 1863)
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.: Pindar (522 BC - 443 BC), 518-438 B.C.
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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), 1895
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.: Norman Podhoretz
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Act as if it were impossible to fail.: Dorothea Brande
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Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.: Johann K. Lavater
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It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Praise the bridge that carried you over.: George Colman (1762 - 1836), The Younger
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma