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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.: Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.: Aaron Burr (1756 - 1836)
And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.: Gordon Atkinson, reallivepreacher.com weblog, September 4, 2003
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I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
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A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.: Unknown
The body is a sacred garment.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Nothing fails like success.: Gerald Nachman
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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!: Louise Bogan
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Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.: Baltasar Gracian
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.: Robert Orben
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'God and the Bible,' 1875
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Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.: Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
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The computer is a moron.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?: Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006