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Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.: Barbara Tober
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The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when the nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.: Alan Bennett
Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.: Solomon Short
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It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Follow the grain in your own wood.: Howard Thurman
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), (attributed)
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.: Wilfred A. Peterson
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Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.: Patricia Russell-McCloud
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), The Yosemite, 1912
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.: Gerry Spence, 'How to Argue and Win Every Time'
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.: William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.: Thich Nhat Hanh
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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?: Bernadette Peters, Inside the Actors Studio
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.: Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.: Saki (1870 - 1916)