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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.: Ethel Barrett
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.: Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.: Unknown
Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.: Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), in Good Housekeeping
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In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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America is a mistake, a giant mistake.: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
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I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school; you feel you've achieved something when you haven't.: Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle, 1948
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.: Shana Alexander
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That's the thing about needs. Sometimes, when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, The Good Fight, 2002
How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.: Penn Jillette (1955 - )
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator
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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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