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The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.: Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), Cosmos (Blues for a Red Planet)
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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I dream, therefore I become.: Cheryl Renée Grossman
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.: Kenneth Tynan
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You always pass failure on the way to success.: Mickey Rooney (1920 - )
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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.: Edgar Wilson Nye (1850 - 1896), quoted in Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1924
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Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.: Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)
No good deed goes unpunished.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in H. Faber, The Book of Laws, 1980
Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.: Chilo
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You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.: Bible, Old Testament
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.: George Moore
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Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.: Margaret Mitchell (1900 - 1949)
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What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?: Dr. Robert Schuller
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.: Jules Feiffer (1929 - )
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