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At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.: Emo Phillips
I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.: Sam Donaldson (1934 - )
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.: George Washington (1732 - 1799), letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791
I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.: Richard Greenberg, NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.: Cynthia Ozick
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.: Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969
No wise man ever wished to be younger.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.: Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
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It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.: Marvin Minsky
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Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.: Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)
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Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937), 'Country Town Sayings,' 1911