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  • A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.
        Alexander Humboldt   Best?
  • You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.
        Blaise Pascal   Best?
  • To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
        Marie de Rabutin-Chantal   Best?
  • All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
        Henry Miller   Best?
  • Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
        Sigmund Freud   Best?
  • We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
        Colley Cibber   Best?
  • It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
        Fran Leibowitz   Best?
  • Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
        Anais Nin   Best?
  • You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
        Galileo Galilei   Best?
  • I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week...to remind me how fragile life is.
        Andy Warhol   Best?
  • The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
        Cicero   Best?
  • If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
        Confucious   Best?
  • Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • One form to rule them all, one form to find them, one form to bring them all and in the darkness rewrite the hell out of them
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • While hunting in Africa, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How an elephant got into my pajamas I'll never know.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
        Marilyn Monroe   Best?
  • I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
        Pliny the Elder   Best?
  • California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange.
        Fred Allen   Best?
  • It is better to go with an umbrella even if it might not rain than it is to get caught in the rain without it.
        Michael Gabriel Bean   Best?
  • It is an illuminating sign of beauty's generation by desire, that when the object of desire is securely won, the sense of its beauty languishes; few men are philosopher enough to desire what they have, and fewer still can find beauty in what no longer stirs desire.
        Will Durant   Best?
  • A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.
        John Stuart Mill   Best?
  • There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
        Joseph Heller   Best?
  • America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.
        Alfred North Whitehead   Best?
  • To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.
        Randy K. Milholland   Best?

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