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  • The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
        Alfred Hitchcock   Best?
  • If at first you don't succeed, try, try, and try again. Then give up. There's no use being a damned fool about it.
        William Claude Dunkenfield   Best?
  • WEATHER, n. The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
        Carl Schurz   Best?
  • Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
        Unknown   Best?
  • If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
        Elizabeth Barrett Browning   Best?
  • Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
        Elizabeth Cady Stanton   Best?
  • What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
        Dave Barry   Best?
  • When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
        Will Rogers   Best?
  • Our greatest victory ever, will be when we master the ultimate knowledge that leads to everlasting life.
        Tino   Best?
  • "The secret to a life with little to no stress: accept the things you can't change and change the things you can't accept."
        Veronica Arocho   Best?
  • Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
        Calvin Coolidge   Best?
  • Judge not by one go...nor by two; travel many times around a stone to see the gem.
        Lionslove   Best?
  • We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.
        Nguyen Co Thatch   Best?
  • Apathy isn't it. We can do something. So flower power didn't work. So what. We start again.
        John Lennon   Best?
  • Always remember, you can never finish work, but work can finish you.
        Louis Keisler   Best?
  • Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see a lot of people doing it.
        Sue Grafton   Best?
  • Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God.
        Jason Mraz   Best?
  • In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.
        Joseph Stalin   Best?
  • I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.
        Avril Lavigne   Best?
  • Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
        Arnold Toynbee   Best?
  • One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.
        Vincent van Gogh   Best?
  • When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
        Marie de Sevigne   Best?
  • The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • 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   Best?
  • You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
        Warren Beatty   Best?
  • Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
        Rita Mae Brown   Best?
  • If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
        Anne Morrow Lindbergh   Best?
  • Arbeit macht frei. (Work sets you free).
        Major Rudolph Hoss   Best?
  • I realized, I'm never gonna be a Brad Pitt, so get over it, be happy with yourself, and move on.
        Clay Aiken   Best?
  • There's nothing so wrong that it can't be easily fixed or easily ignored. I just let things roll off.
        Clay Aiken   Best?
  • Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.
        Deepak Chopra   Best?
  • Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.
        Malcolm Forbes   Best?

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