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I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking.: Katherine Cebrian
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.: Germaine Greer, O Magazine, September 2002
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We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.: Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.: Colette (1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.: Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"
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Maybe I want strangers to think I’m cool since people who actually know me don’t.: John Green (1977 - ), An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.: Arab Proverb
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Hocus Pocus
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.: Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 07-07-06
A witty saying proves nothing.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.: Bill Gates (1955 - )
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.: Liberace (1919 - 1987)