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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.: Robert Orben
What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.: Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.: Dorothy C. Fisher (1879 - 1958), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
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Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.: Meladee McCarty
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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Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).: Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.: Bill Hicks
I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.: Joan D. Vinge, Catspaw
[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.: Mary Hirsch
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Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.: Carl Becker
You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?: Bernadette Peters, Inside the Actors Studio
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.: Robert Orben
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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