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Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards.: Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde, Northern Exposure, Roots, 1991
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Disappearing can be quite the coping mechanism for those of us who fear abandonment the very most of all. If we disappear, you have to find us. You're the one who worries. We know where we are, but you can't leave me. I'm in charge and doing the leaving. Not the other way around.: Jennifer Neal, nakedjen, Disappearing Act, 03-06-12
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.: Anne Lamott
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A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.: Piero Ferrucci
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), "Keep the Faith, Baby!", 1967
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005), Comedy Central Presents
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.: W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny
There’s a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.: Donald Foster
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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