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Getting caught is the mother of invention.: Robert Byrne
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I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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If you have the creative urge, it isn't going to go away. But sometimes it takes a while before you accept the fact.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 30, 08-22-04
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.: William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.: Joseph Farrell
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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.: Jimmy Breslin
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The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
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I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.: Whoopi Goldberg
If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.: Nadine Stair
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If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.: Jeffrey Rowland, Sound! 12-22-05
The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.: Ellen DeGeneres
Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain: Scott Westerfeld, Pretties, 2005
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.: Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
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We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.: Ecclesiasticus, Aprocrypha (Ec. 41:12)