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Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.: Gene Fowler
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.: Robert Byrne
There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family.": Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.: George Bush (1924 - ), "All the Best, George Bush"
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.: Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell"
The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful: Frederick Locker-Lampson
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At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
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When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.: Ben Stein, E! Online, 12-20-03
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The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.: George F. Will (1941 - )
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You can’t love a crowd the same way you can love a person. And a crowd can’t love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn’t scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 26. Write from the heart., 08-22-04
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.: Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950), Americans and Others, 1912
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'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.: Malaclypse the Younger
People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990