May 2013
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The average person thinks he isn’t.
– Father Larry Lorenzoni
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
– Alan Kay
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Why don’t you write books people can read?
– Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)
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Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in...
– Robert Orben
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
– Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)
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Hell is other people.
– Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
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Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
– Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because...
– Yogi Berra
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
– John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
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A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
– Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a...
– Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget...
– Maya Angelou (1928-)
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we...
– Erica Jong (1942-)
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your...
– Henry Ford (1863-1947)
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
– Will Durant
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf...
– Frank Zappa
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Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the...
– Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
April 2013
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no...
– Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that...
– Umberto Eco
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An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an...
– Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the...
– James Branch Cabell
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Maybe this world is another planet’s Hell.
– Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
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I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
– Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
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If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.
– J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)
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Get some sleep.
Eat an orange every morning.
Be friendly. It will help make...
– Ron Padgett, “How To Be Perfect”
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
– Voltaire (1694-1778)
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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