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The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
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Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
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Paul Tillich (1886 - 1965)
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
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Peter De Vries
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), on the eve of his 75th birthday
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
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John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven"
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage.
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Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum, Unshelved, 09-14-08
Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.
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Lawrence Bixby
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.
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M. C. Richards
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
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Sylvia Ashton-Warner
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave!
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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Madonna (1958 - )
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
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Julia Child (1912 - 2004)
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Casting Call, 10-21-13
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
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Anonymous
Maybe it's what's inside that counts, but being told you look good feels good!
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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