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Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.: David Letterman (1947 - )
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.: Chinese Proverb
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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.: James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972)
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The past is finished. There is nothing to b gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.: Rebecca Beard
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1
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The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Technology and the Future" (Clarke's second law)
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.: Unknown
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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.: P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest
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True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, March 17, 1911
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.: Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931)
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.: Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, 1975
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There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.: William Langland (1332 - 1400)
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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If something is not worth the few seconds it takes to rewrite it, then chances are it’s really not important.: Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method, 2018
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It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of the Open Road