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School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.: Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-09-11
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Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.: Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.: Robert Orben
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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.: Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.: Steven Spielberg
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Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dogbert; Dilbert cartoons
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.: Brendan Francis
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When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.: Ugo Betti, Struggle Till Dawn
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography
Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.: George Bush (1924 - ), "All the Best, George Bush"
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.: Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.: James Feibleman
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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
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There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.: Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
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