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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.: Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, Accepted, 2006
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I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.: Garry Trudeau (1948 - )
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.: Charles A. Dana (1819 - 1897)
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You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.: Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley, 1963
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Malheureux'
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The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.: Jill Churchill, O Magazine, May 2003
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Imagination is more important than knowledge...: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.: William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966)
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.': Maya Angelou (1928 - ), in Daily News
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.: Ralph Charell
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.: Marita Bonner
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.: Andy Rooney (1919 - )
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.: Deepak Chopra
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.: James Magary
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