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A random selection of fabulous
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Quotations from Famous People - 189
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Nadine Gordimer
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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Lao-Tzu, Tao te Ching
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.
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Oscar Levant
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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William Shakespeare
I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve.
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Seneca
He who spares the wicked injures the good.
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Oriental Proverb
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
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Jerry Seinfeld
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
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Hellen Keller
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Here's a good joke to do during an earthquake Straddle a big crack in the ground, and if it opens wider, go 'Whoa Whoa' and flail your arms around, like you're going to fall in.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I wish scientists would come up with a way to make dogs a lot bigger, but with a smaller head. That way, they'd still be good as watchdogs, but they wouldn't eat so much.
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Denis Diderot
All children are essentially criminal.
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