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Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. It is essential for our democracy.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.: David Letterman (1947 - )
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.: Rick Polito, Marin Independent Journal's TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"
Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.: Steven Weinberg (1933 - )
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We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.: Randy K. Milholland, Midnight Macabre, 10-18-05
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Adventure is just bad planning.: Roald Amundsen (1872 - 1928)
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.: Gene Fowler
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.: Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
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What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.: Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
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Buy the ticket take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.: Sara B. Cooper, House, Damned If You Do, 2004
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Why be a man when you can be a success?: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)