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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
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Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
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De La Lastra's Law
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
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William Bridges
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
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Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
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David Letterman (1947 - )
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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Margaret Bonnano
I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.
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Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), in a letter to Winston Churchill
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
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E. W. Dijkstra
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
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Aaron McGruder, Boondocks, 07-04-04
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.
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Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.
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Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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