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In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.: Thomas Pickering (1931 - )
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.: Vaclav Havel (1936 - )
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
People find life entirely too time-consuming.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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Life is a long lesson in humility.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
It's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them—that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963
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Do not be afraid of defeat. you are never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.: Ellen DeGeneres
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.: Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925)
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.: Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
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Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.: John Lancaster Spalding
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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