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Yesterday
is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes
every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
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You gotta
have guts to break outta the mold and swim upstream (Told to me by an
american friend)
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The
ultimate in beauty is simplicity.
-
There
is a greater difference between one man and another than between two animals
of different species - Michel de Montaigne
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He
is a hero who revolts against paternal authority and conquers it - Sigmund
Freud
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In
the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of
our friends - Martin Luther King Jr
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Never
interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake - Napoleon Bonaparte
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I
have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work - Thomas Alva
Edison
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I
have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it
had an underlying truth - Umberto Eco
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The
significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking
we were at when we created them - Albert Einstein
-
There
is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf
life - Frank Zappa
-
Life
is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome -
Isaac Asimov
-
To
love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde
-
Knowledge
speaks, but wisdom listens - Jimi Hendrix
-
If
everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough - Mario
Andretti
-
When
you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you - Friedrich
Nietzsche
-
Success
usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David
Thoreau
-
First
they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win -
Mahatma Gandhi
-
My
advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if
not, you'll become a philosopher - Socrates
-
Egotist:
a person more interested in himself than in me - Ambrose Bierce
-
We
all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr
-
It
is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid - George Bernard Shaw
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From
the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with
laughter. Some day I intend reading it - Groucho Marx
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I
love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known - Walt Disney
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No
sane man will dance - Cicero
-
Friends
may come and go, but enemies accumulate - Thomas Jones
-
The
difference between pornography and erotica is lighting - Gloria Leonard
-
Every
day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in
America. If I'm not there, I go to work - Robert Orben
-
Men
have become the tools of their tools - Henry David Thoreau
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I
have never let my schooling interfere with my education - Mark Twain
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Men
and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other
alternatives - Abba Eban
-
Opportunities
multiply as they are seized - Sun Tzu
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The
best way to predict the future is to invent it - Alan Kay
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It's
not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog
- Mark Twain
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This
isn't right, this isn't even wrong - Wolfgang Pauli, upon reading a young
physicist's paper
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There
are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the
other is getting it - Oscar Wilde
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There
are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle - Albert Einstein
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