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We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.: J. A. Spender
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.: David Russell
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.: Dale Carnegie
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.: Sophia Loren (1934 - )
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.: Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
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A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), No. 1333
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.: Rabbinical Saying
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.: Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), Fahrenheit 451, 1953
When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Mostly Harmless
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.: John Tudor
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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.: Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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