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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.: Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.: Edward Chapin
No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.: Jascha Heifetz (1901 - 1987)
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Ecce Homo, Foreword
Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.: Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: Blue Noon, 2005
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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.: Leo Rosten (1908 - )
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Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), What The Dead Men Say, 1964
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Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.: Brenda Ueland
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661), 'The Holy State and the Profane State,' 1642
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.: Thomas Hardy
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It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.: Al Franken, 'Stuart Saves His Family'
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be.: Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )
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I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)