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You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
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Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.: David Letterman (1947 - )
I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with.: Lisa Williams, Learning the Lessons of Nixon, 03-29-08
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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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I have read your book and much like it.: Moses Hadas (1900 - 1966)
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If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.: Dan Rather (1931 - )
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The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
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Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.: Christina Baldwin
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.: Bobby Knight (1940 - )
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There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.: Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.: Sam Ewing
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Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.: Unknown
Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.: Gallagher
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[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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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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But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.: Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003
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