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RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
Ambrose Bierce
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Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.
Unknown
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A. Froude
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
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Alea Iacta est... (the dice is cast)
Julius Ceasar
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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
Hunter S. Thompson
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I call architecture frozen music.
Goethe
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Many people feel that mass acceptance and smooth socialization are desirable life paths for a young adult... Many people are often wrong... Don't bother being nice. Being popular and well liked is not in your best interest. Let me be more clear; if you behave in a manner pleasing to most, then you are probably doing something wrong. The masses have never been arbiters of the sublime, and they often fail to recognize the truly great individual. Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.
Janeane Garofalo
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
Victor Hugo
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Wear a smile and have friends,
Georges Eliot
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Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
Publilius Syrus
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Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
P. J. O'Rourke
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
Fran Leibowitz
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Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
Douglas Adams
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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?
Confucious
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Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Robert A. Heinlein
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If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Voltaire
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard
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I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
Steven Wright
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Someday they're gonna write a blues song just for fighters. It'll be for slow guitar, soft trumpet, and a bell.
Sonny Liston
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A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.
George S. Patton
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I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.
Oscar Wilde
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The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.
Joseph Stalin
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Edward Abbey
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I finally realized that being a role model doesn't mean people are encouraged to be like me -- they're encouraged to go out and be more of themselves.
Lucy Lawless
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There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--
Emily Dickinson
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Fashion changes, style remains.
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel
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The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Robert Fulghum
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The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
Orson Scott Card
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God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.
Pablo Picasso
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
William Shakespeare
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Strain every nerve to gain your point.
Cicero
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A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
Neil Gaiman
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Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
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