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“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”

C.S. Lewis

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“You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.”
Dale Earnhardt

Well, you can - but you really should not. :)

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“When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.”

Oscar Wilde

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"Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System."

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.”

William James

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"The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility."

Emily G. Balch

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“Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.”

Denis Waitley

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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon

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“Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?”

Lily Tomlin

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“Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.”
Oscar Levant

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"I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war."

Georges Clemenceau

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“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”

James Arthur Baldwin

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"The way up and the way down are one and the same."

Heraclitus


... er... okay..... :whistling

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“If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
Tallulah Bankhead

I think I would skip some ;)

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"Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made."

Bruce Catton

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“A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.”

Albert Einstein

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"Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation."

Tennessee Williams

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“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

Bill Gates

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"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."

Eugene McCarthy

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“The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.”

Sigmund Freud

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“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
Oscar Wilde

:wink:

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"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."

William James

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“If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm”
Elizabeth Bowen

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“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”

Seneca

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"What is reality? I am a plaster doll; I pose with eyes that cut open without landfall or nightfall upon some shellacked and grinning person,
eyes that open, blue, steel, and close. Am I approximately an I. Magnin transplant?"
Anne Sexton

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“It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.”

Barry Switzer

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"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist."

Stewart Alsop

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"It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses."

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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“Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.”

Connie Mack

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"My life needs editing."

Mort Sahl

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“God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.”

Stephen Crotts

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I couldn't find any with "resubmitted" or "resubmit", so I go on with "submitted".

"The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity."
Paul M. Glaser

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"Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it."
Karol Newlin

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"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

Theodore Roosevelt

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"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

R. Buckminster Fuller

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"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”

Marcel Pagnol

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"He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom."

James Huneker

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“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

Reinhold Niebuhr

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“There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.”
Jim Rohn

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"Women rule our lives, don't they?"

Juan Manuel Fangio

:whistling