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I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
Out of the strain of the Doing,
Into the peace of the Done.
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Julia Louise Woodruff, 'Harvest Home,' Sunday at Home, 1910
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
You never can see into someone else's marriage.
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Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
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Chinese Proverb
Dude, marriage is the 'get out of loneliness free' card in the Monopoly game of life.
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Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz, Home on the Strange, 11-09-07
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
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James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.
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George Sheehan
Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
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Woody Allen (1935 - ), Without Feathers, 1976
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
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Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.
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John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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