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Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.: Sir Robert Hutchinson
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.: John Billings(Henry Wheeler Shaw)
I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?: Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.: Czech Proverb
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.: James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.: Peter Steiner, cartoon in The New Yorker, July 5, 1993
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.: Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), Physiologie du Gout, 1825
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of Myself, 1855
Victory belongs to the most persevering.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.: Wendell Berry
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
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You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
Enquire not what boils in another's pot.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!: Jonathan Winters
There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content #1356, 03-10-09
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.: Scandinavian Proverb
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There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
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