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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), "Of Beauty"
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When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.: George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.: Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
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How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.: Fred Brooks
To try to be better is to be better.: Charlotte Cushman (1816 - 1876), quoted in O Magazine, December 2003
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.: Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)
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For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.: Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.: Mary O'Hara
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.: Antisthenes (445 BC - 365 BC)
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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I am a deeply superficial person.: Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
I'm moving, but don't worry! [Someone once] told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticult Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.: Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)