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Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.: Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, 07-10-2001
My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.: Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
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Honor does not have to be defended.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.: Wolfgang Pauli (1900 - 1958), on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague
That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.: Madonna (1958 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too.: John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.: Aaron McGruder, Boondocks, 07-04-04
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
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I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.: Emo Phillips
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.: Robert Orben
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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.: John Gaule
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.: Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286 BC)
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.: Minna Thomas Antrim
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.: David M. Ogilvy
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.: Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
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Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.: Saskya Pandita
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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)