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Charles de Leusse
Who comes out of the
Who comes out of the jungle finds crocodiles. (Qui sort de la jungle Trouve les crocodiles)
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Lichty and Wagner
Oh, I don't blame Congress.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had 600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
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Jack Handey
Most of the time it
Most of the time it was probably real bad being stuck down in a dungeon. But some days, when there was a bad storm outside, you'd look out your little window and think, Boy, I'm glad I'm not out in THAT.''
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Charles de Leusse
The present is the equilibrium
The present is the equilibrium of the past and the future. (Le présent, c'est l'équilibre Du passé et du futur)
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Dr. Robert Schuller
Commit yourself to a dream...
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle--he defeated the fear of trying.
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Jack Leigh
“You look through the viewfinder
“You look through the viewfinder and know that it is your responsibility and your art and your passion to look at everything in that frame as part of a whole that you need to shape. There’s nothing in that frame which should go unnoticed. Then that’s what it means to be thinking and seeing as a photographer.”
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Jack Leigh
“I was very much of
“I was very much of the opinion that southern culture was a unique culture born of the union, the contribution, of the races. We all knew the struggle and the history of that. But where I found myself in attitude was wanting to celebrate that union because southern culture was definitely a synthesis of black and white.”
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Virginia
One likes people much better
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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Charles A. Duelfer
Iraq didn’t need to be
Iraq didn’t need to be this bad. Still, something had to be done. That much is clear.
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James Lileks
Ill feel that horrible feeling
Ill feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when youve gone over to the Dark Side. But Ill be fine. Thats the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust.
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Jack Handey
Whenever someone asks me to
Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. NOW who's asking the questions
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Arthur Koestler
Scientists are peeping toms at
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
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Don Schula
Sure, luck means a lot
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
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Arthur Koestler
Creative activity could be described
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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Virginia
One of the signs of
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
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Arthur Koestler
Politics can be relatively fair
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
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Arthur Koestler
The definition of the individual
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
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James Lileks
I want to believe in
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.
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Arthur Koestler
If conquerors be regarded as
If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.
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Jack Handey
Whenever I need to get
Whenever I need to get away,'' I just get away in my mind. I go to my imaginary spot, where the beach is perfect and the water is perfect and the weather is perfect. The only bad thing there are the flies. They're terrible
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Arthur Koestler
The most persistent sound which
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
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Helen Schucman
Every situation, properly perceived, becomes
Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.
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Arthur Koestler
Nobody before the Pythagorean had
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.
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Virginia
For most of history, Anonymous
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
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