October 2011
31 posts
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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be...
– Robert Benchley
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He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for...
– Chinese proverb
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Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
– Edgar Bergen
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Beware of advice, even this.
– Carl Sandburg
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By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and...
– Robert Frost
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I do not like work even when someone else does it.
– Mark Twain
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Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the...
– R. E. Shay
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new...
– Isaac Asimov
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Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
– Anonymous
Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
– Oscar Levant
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It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a...
– Sutton Elbert Griggs
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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the ‘lower animals’ (so...
– Mark Twain
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Why should we take sex advice from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he...
– George Bernard Shaw
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But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless...
– Umberto Eco
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It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.
– Yogi Berra
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Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old...
– Anonymous
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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing...
– William Shakespeare
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you’ll find the real tinsel...
– Oscar Levant
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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I...
– Charles Schulz
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I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
– Oscar Levant
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
– Jane Austen
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Isn’t it the most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps...
– Václav Havel
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Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage...
– Anonymous
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Converasation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because...
– Agnes Repplier
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer...
– Salman Rushdie
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There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The...
– Albert Einstein
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
– Jean de la Bruyère
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One always overcompensates for disabilities. I’m thinking of having my entire...
– Douglas Adams
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My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
– Woody Allen
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A morning without coffee is sleep.
– Anonymous
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The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar...
– Paul Fix