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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.: George Sheehan
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It never hurts to ask. Unless you ask for hurt.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
A man that don't believe in destiny don't need to know what his destiny is.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 08-20-08
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Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), Taken Care Of ,1965
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.: Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.: Arnold Bennett
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.: Erica Jong
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I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.: Ellen DeGeneres
To be great is to be misunderstood.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), An Essay on Self-Reliance
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.: L. M. Boyd
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), (attributed)
I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
The world is my lobster.: Henry J. Tillman
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?: Dr. Robert Schuller
With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.: Woody Allen (1935 - )