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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion, Act 2
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.: Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
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God help those who do not help themselves.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted.: De la Lastra's Corollary
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.: J. G. C. Brainard
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.: Dorothea Dix (1802 - 1887)
My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.: Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance.: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.: Jane E. Brody
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.: Senator Patrick Leahy (1940 - ), May 1990
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The world belongs to the energetic.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)