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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.: A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
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Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Conclusion, 1854
Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living.: Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - )
Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?: Josh Brand and John Falsey, Northern Exposure, The Pilot, 1990
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Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), "The Peter Principle"
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Health food makes me sick.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
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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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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later", 1978
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