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Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.: Robert Veninga
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".: Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973)
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Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.: Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
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Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.: Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985
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There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.: Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825 - 1921)
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We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.: Marie Beyon Ray
Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.: Marcus Brigstocke
Cocooned inside our private dramas we often don’t realize life is rolling by us like it should.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 08-29-06
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.: Phyllis Diller
I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
There ain't no such thing as wrong food.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
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