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  • It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
        Philip K. Dick   Best?
  • I am not a role model.
        Mike Tyson   Best?
  • I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
        Henry Ford   Best?
  • If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
        Malcolm X   Best?
  • Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
        Aesop   Best?
  • A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
        Tao Te Ching   Best?
  • You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • This is no time to make new enemies.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Everybody should be able to make some music...That's the cosmic dance!
        Maude   Best?
  • Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.
        Charles Mingus   Best?
  • In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • VALOR, n. A soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Some people make things happen, some watch while things happen, and some wonder 'What happened?'
        Unknown   Best?
  • Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
  • Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
        Eleanor Roosevelt   Best?
  • Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
        Epictetus   Best?
  • Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out.
        Unknown   Best?
  • You know you're getting old when it takes to much effort to procrastinate.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
        Rainer Maria Rilke   Best?
  • Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
        Anthony J. D'Angelo   Best?
  • The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
        Henry L. Stimson   Best?
  • Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes   Best?
  • When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
        Ed Macauley   Best?
  • Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes   Best?

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