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Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
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The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.: Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance
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You should not live one way in private, another in public.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.: Brock Chisholm
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.: Elizabeth Goudge
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.: Sir Edward Appleton (1892 - 1965)
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Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 1 Ignore Everybody, 08-22-04
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.: Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973)
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, 1854
Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.: Martina Navratilova (1956 - )
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.: Swedish Proverb
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