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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.: John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)
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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
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Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.: W.E.B. Du Bois, Speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, August 1906
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Invention is the mother of necessity.: Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
They say you just stand over there, he'll say thank you and you walk back off and that's what I thought was gonna happen, but in my head, I had for five or six years known that he was gonna call me over.: Ellen DeGeneres, Commenting on being called over to sit with Johnny Carson back in 1986
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.: Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)
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Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.: Frank Thomas, Disney Animator, When asked to give advice to young animators
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.: John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)
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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
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Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.: Shakti Gawain
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The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.: Hazrat Inayat Khan
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In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.: Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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