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See the happy moron,
He doesn't give a damn,
I wish I were a moron,
My God! perhaps I am!

Anonymous

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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith; so that I could remove mountains; and have not charity, I am nothing.

Bible: I Corinthians

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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells 1866-1946: The Outline of History (1920)

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“It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”

Virginia Woolf

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For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

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'Twould ring the bells of Heaven
The wildest peal for years,
If Parson lost his senses
And people came to theirs,
And he and they together
Knelt down with angry prayers
For tamed and shabby tigers
And dancing dogs and bears,
And wretched, blind, pit ponies,
And little hunted hares.

Ralph Hodgson

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'Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on. 'I do,' Alice hastily replied; 'at least---at least I mean what I say---that's the same thing, you know.' 'Not the same thing a bit!' said the Hatter. 'Why, you might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see!" '

Lewis Carroll 1832-98: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

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"He that lives well sees a farre off."

-George Herbert

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Because I like to pick up where I left off and continue from there.

Tommy Tune

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There is no such thing as a free lunch.

Professor Alvin Hansen.

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

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"The oyster is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not the letter R in their name."

-Henry Buttes

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Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.

William Shakespeare

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell 1872-1970: Marriage and Morals (1929)

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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

Aaron Copland
US composer (1900 - 1990)

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"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"

William Congreve (my great great uncle or cousin or something), The Mourning Bride

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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

Cervantes, The Impossible Dream

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The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions.

Jane Byrne

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Thank God, in these days of enlightenment and establishment, everyone has a right to his own opinions, and chiefly to the opinion that nobody else has a right to theirs.

Ronald Knox

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Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809-92: 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' (1854)

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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

AA Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh.


Awwwwww!!!! :)

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Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious, of which you are not aware. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy...You want to be consciously happy; the moment you are consciously happy, happiness is gone.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

Laurie Anderson

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My mom says I’m her sugarplum.
My mom says I’m her lamb.
My mom says I’m completely perfect
Just the way I am.
My mom says I’m a super-special wonderful terrific little guy.
My mom just had another baby.
Why?

Judith Viorst (20th century), U.S. author and poet.

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How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best!

Charles James Fox

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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Breaking into the Writing Game"
US humorist & showman (1879 - 1935)

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There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us.

Anonymous

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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Woody Allen, My Speech to the Graduates
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must..." designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.

Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"

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There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Sydney J. Harris

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The best Web sites are better than reality.
Jakob Nielsen, Usability consultant

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon

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And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

William Shakespeare

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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"Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience."

-Bible

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Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden.

John Milton

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This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

William Shakespeare, "King Richard II", Act 2 scene 1
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

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It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.

John Amery