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  • Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
        Josh Billings   Best?
  • I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
        Charles De Secondat   Best?
  • Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
        Arthur C. Clarke   Best?
  • You want to raise your child in such a way that you don't have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.
        L. Ron Hubbard   Best?
  • You know I'm sick of following my dreams, man... I'm just gonna ask where they're going and hook up with 'em later.
        Mitch Hedburg   Best?
  • It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them... At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts.
        R. A. Salvatore   Best?
  • A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.
        Ayn Rand   Best?
  • A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone.
        Charles Darwin   Best?
  • Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
        Proverb   Best?
  • A friend's eye is a good mirror.
        Celtic Proverb   Best?
  • Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
        R. Buckminster Fuller   Best?
  • What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.
        Calvin Coolidge   Best?
  • Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
        Horace   Best?
  • Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
        Ellen DeGeneres   Best?
  • This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
        Real Live Preacher   Best?
  • Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
        Solomon, King of Israel   Best?
  • There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility.
        John F. Kennedy   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?
  • Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
        Thomas Hobbes   Best?
  • Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
        Anne Michaels   Best?
  • It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
        Charles Baudelaire   Best?
  • Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
        Will Rogers   Best?
  • Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
        Georges Eliot   Best?
  • Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
        Jean Baptiste Rousseau   Best?
  • Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
        Martin Luther   Best?
  • Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
        William Ralph Inge   Best?
  • Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
        Plato   Best?
  • Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
  • When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
        Nicole Kidman   Best?
  • Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.
        Plato   Best?
  • If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good!
        Dr. Seuss   Best?

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