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  • I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
        Socrates   Best?
  • Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
        Sylvia Plath   Best?
  • The question is not what you look at but what you see.
        Thoreau   Best?
  • Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • I've got a lot of courage, but I've also got a lot of fear. You should allow yourself to be scared. It's one of the prime emotions. You might almost enjoy it, funny as it sounds, and find that you can get over it and deal with it. If you ignore these things, you miss so much.
        Björk Gudmundsdottir   Best?
  • Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.
        Plato   Best?
  • Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
        Zora Neale Hurston   Best?
  • A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
        Georges Eliot   Best?
  • Here's to our girlfriends and wives; may they never meet!
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
        Robert Fulghum   Best?
  • We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.
        Jane Austen   Best?
  • Dare to be naive.
        R. Buckminster Fuller   Best?
  • Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
        Jimmy Durante   Best?
  • The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.
        Bill Watterson   Best?
  • Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here I am.
        Marilyn Manson   Best?
  • I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.
        Hugh Elliott   Best?
  • If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
        Julia Sorel   Best?
  • Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.
        Melaine Rawn   Best?
  • We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
        Rita Mae Brown   Best?
  • Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube.
        Hunter S. Thompson   Best?
  • Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.
        Frank Herbert   Best?
  • Serendipity: Look for something, find something else, and realize what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.
        Lawrence Brooks   Best?
  • I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
        Nikola Tesla   Best?
  • Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!
        Ted Turner   Best?
  • Men, in general, are but great children.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.
        Ernesto "Che" Guevara   Best?
  • It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
        Dr. Joyce Brothers   Best?
  • Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion.
        Maynard James Keenan   Best?

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