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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.: Henry J. Tillman
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in.: Jennifer Neal, nakedjen, 06-26-09
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.: Kathleen Norris
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.: Louis Vermeil
Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we’re ready.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 12-30-05
Literature is news that stays news.: Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972), ABC of Reading (1934) chapter 8
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.: Lord Macaulay, review of Lucy Aikin, 'Life and Writings of Addison,' 1943
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Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.: Quentin Crisp
The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.: Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.: Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.: Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
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Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary