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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
Living in a vacuum sucks.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
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The best way to learn to be an honest, responsible adult is to live with adults who act honestly and responsibly.: Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978
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Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.: Price Cobb
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.: Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.: Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.: Henry L. Stimson (1867 - 1950)
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.: Rabbi Abraham Heschel
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Music is essentially useless, as life is.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
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Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.: Franklin P. Jones
Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.: Anthony Starr
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Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.: Ben Azai, Mishna
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.: George Jackson (1941 - 1971)
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