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Imagination is more important than knowledge...
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
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Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Quentin Crisp
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
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Dinah Shore (1917 - 1994)
A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.
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Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909)
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
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Dave Barry (1947 - )
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
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Robert Byrne
Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world.
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Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan: Back On The Street
A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
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Henry Morgan
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), Interview, April 30, 1978
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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Alan Patrick Herbert
It’s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.
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Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-09-05
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
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Alice Walker (1944 - ), "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"
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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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