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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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Jerry Garcia
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
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William Arthur Ward
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
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Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), (attributed)
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Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
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Stella Benson
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
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Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
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You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.
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Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
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Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
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You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.
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Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
Trade your secrets and become who you are.
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Frank Warren, PostSecret, 09-06-08
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
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C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), 'The Pilgrim's Regress'
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I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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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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