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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986), in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
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God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.: Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien
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How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971), No One Here Gets Out Alive
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.: W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963), last message to the world, 1957
You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.: Sylvia Robinson
It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.: Baltasar Gracian
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The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.: Sydney J. Harris
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A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.: Joey Adams
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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When you understand that your feelings are triggered by what you think about an event and not by the event itself, you gain a measure of control. Although you cannot control the things (events) that happen to you, or change your feelings (after all, you feel the way you feel), you can change your thoughts. A change in thoughts often radically alters your feelings.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.: William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)
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I'm a jerk to everyone. Best way to protect yourself from lawsuits.: David Hoselton, House M.D., Guardian Angels, 2007
It's about what YOU are going to do with the short time you have left on this earth.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 23, 08-22-04
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God’s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 26, 2002
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