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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
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Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 9, 08-22-04
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.: Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.: Miss Piggy
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?: Unknown, Dan Fielding in "Night Court"
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.: Sir Wilfred Grenfell (1865 - 1940)
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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It's never too late to be who you might have been.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.: Dr. Howard Murphy
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.: Joseph de Maistre
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.: Aprocrypha
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Genius is of no country.: Charles Churchill
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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