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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?: Art Hoppe
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.: John Neal
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.: Cullen Hightower
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.: Karen Sunde
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.: Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
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See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06
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Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 01-04-04
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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.: Edith Sodergran
I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), The End of Laissez-faire (1926) Ch. 1
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), speaking of Katharine Hepburn
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.: Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004
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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.: Piet Hein (1905 - ), "Grooks"
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
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