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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.: Ausonius
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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.: William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922), Afoot in England, 1909
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True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.: Erich Segal
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.: Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
What luck for rulers that men do not think.: Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
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It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.: Unknown
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. There is not a "fragment" in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916
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If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.: Nora Ephron
You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.: Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957), on being phoned at 10:00 AM
One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher.com weblog, September 9, 2003
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.: Roy M. Goodman
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)