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We only do well the things we like doing.: Colette (1873 - 1954), Prisons and Paradise, 1932
There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.: Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, March 10, 2008
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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We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
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When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?: Spike Milligan, from "The Goon Show"
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?: Scott Adams (1957 - )
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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.: Dick Cavett (1936 - )
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Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.: Evelyn Underhill
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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.: Andrew S. Tanenbaum
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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The only cure for grief is action.: George Henry Lewes
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
They say you just stand over there, he'll say thank you and you walk back off and that's what I thought was gonna happen, but in my head, I had for five or six years known that he was gonna call me over.: Ellen DeGeneres, Commenting on being called over to sit with Johnny Carson back in 1986
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.: Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.: E. F. Schumacher