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"Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on."
--Karen Elizabeth Gordon
"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
--John F. Kennedy
"Food is the most primitive form of comfort."
--Sheila Graham
"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning."
--John Henry Cardinal Newman

"Everybody knows if you are too careful you so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
--Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography,1937

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
--Walter Bagehot

"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."
--Alfred North Whitehead
"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal."
--H.L. Mencken
"Any man whose error take ten years to correct is quite a man."
--J. Robert Oppenheimer, speaking of Albert Einstein
"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?"
--Irv Kupcinet
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness."
--David Dunham
"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."
--Gore Vidal
"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
--Jerome K. Jerome
"The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath."
--Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to ourstrip our yesterday by our today."
--Stewart B. Johnson
"To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it."
--Jim Beggs
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."
--Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."
--Matthew Arnold, 'God and the Bible,' 1875
"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."
--Socrates
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after."
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 'Gift From the Sea'
"Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself."
--Peter da Silva
"I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave."
--E. M. Forster, as a small child
"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
--Unknown, Buckaroo Banzai, from the film
"Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees."
--David Letterman
"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."
--Maureen Dowd, in 'New York Times'
"Health is not valued till sickness comes."
--Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
"I think wholeness comes from living you life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night."
--Margery Cuyler
"The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone."
--Thomas H. Huxley
"Sport is imposing order on what was chaos."
--Anthony Starr
"Work as if everything depended on you, but pray as if everything depended on God."
--Ignatius
"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking."
--H.L. Mencken

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