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It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.: Hesiod (~800 BC)
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.: Bobcat Goldthwaite
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.: Hans Hoffman
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.: Hannah More
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It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.: George Sewell
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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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What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.: Judy Grahn, Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds, 1984
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.: Norman Douglas
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.: Shakti Gawain
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If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. In the meantime, you%uFFFDre better off going out into the big, wide world, having some adventures and refilling your well. Trying to create when you don%uFFFDt feel like it is like making conversation for the sake of making conversation.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.: Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
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To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
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A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)