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You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 27, 2003
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.: Dick Gregory (1932 - )
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I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.: Ray Bradbury (1920 - ), Fahrenheit 451, 1953
Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
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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Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.: Danny Kaye (1913 - 1987)
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.: E. H. Gombrich (1909 - )
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity and boost our economy.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.: Julia Child (1912 - 2004)
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The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.: Rebecca Beard
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.: David Broder
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.: Ingrid Bengis
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With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), O Magazine, October 2003
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In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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