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The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.: Roseanne Barr
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.: Jimmy Carter (1924 - ), in his farewell address
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), on the radio program The Big Show, Dec. 17, 1950
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Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.: The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700-1000 B.C.
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.: Jane Wagner
I like to play chess with old men in the park. But it's so hard to find 32 of them.: Emo Phillips
First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.: Martin Myers
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.: Doug Larson
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Orthodoxy; p. 14
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) Act III
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
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