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You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.: Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-23-2006
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When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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The shortest distance between two points is under construction.: Noelie Altito
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.: Anonymous
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
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Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "You Never Can Tell" (1898), act I
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Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.: The Mishnah
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.: C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"
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We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010