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I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.: Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
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No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Koichi Mano
Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 06-10-04
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act II
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.: Kathleen Norris
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When yu' can't have why you choose, yu' just choose what you have.: Owen Wister, The Virginian, Chapter 13, 1929
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.: Lois McMaster Bujold
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.: Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.: Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), On the Nature of the Universe
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.: Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
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The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.: Carl Becker
When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.: John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.: Storm Jameson
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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