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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.: Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.: Elie Wiesel (1928 - )
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?: Josh Brand and John Falsey, Northern Exposure, The Pilot, 1990
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.: John Wesley (1703 - 1791)
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The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.: Whitney Young (1921 - 1971)
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There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.: Robert Orben
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.: Lynda Barry
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Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 08-06-08
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.: Berthold Auerbach (1812 - 1882)
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.: Henrik Tikkanen
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.: M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
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Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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