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For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.: Eudora Welty (1909 - )
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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?' 'Well, that would be a start.': Peter Stone, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in "Charade", 1963
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.: Garrison Keillor (1942 - )
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You have to want weight-loss success so badly that no mountain, river, or ocean could keep you from reaching your goals. If you have that drive, passion, and commitment, there is no way you won’t get there.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
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The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.: Louis C. K., Reddit, 2012
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.: Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
We go where our vision is.: Joseph Murphy
I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech at Amherst College, October 26, 1963
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