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Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Sophocles
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Beat me, hate me, you can never break me.
Michael Jackson
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Tongue - a variety of meat, rarely served because it clearly crosses the line between a cut of beef and a piece of dead cow.
Bob Ekstrom
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Andre Gide
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Ambrose Bierce
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Dentist, n.: A Prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls coins out of one's pockets.
Ambrose Bierce
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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
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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.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
Robert A. Heinlein
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There is nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Ross MacDonald
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TYPE, n. Pestilent bits of metal suspected of destroying civilization and enlightenment, despite their obvious agency in this incomparable dictionary.
Ambrose Bierce
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My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.
Rosanne Barr
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Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.
Confucious
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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo DaVinci
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We must become the change we want to see.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus
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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl S. Buck
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsay Clark
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My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
Rita Rudner
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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Richard Feynman
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Impossible is possible
Cheeky paper
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We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people.
Colonel Gerald Wellman
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The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal--or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
Elizabeth Peters
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An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
Henry Clay
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Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.
Miguel de Cervantes
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A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
Proverb
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The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
George W. Bush
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
R. D. Laing
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R. D. Laing
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If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!
Osho
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My feelings would never change, but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world.
Roger Zelazny
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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.
Karl Marx
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Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Peter Borden
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The more things change, the more they remain...insane.
Michael Fry & T. Lewis
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
Doris Lessing
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