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Tammy Faye Bakker
I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
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Willa Cather
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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Carl Sagan
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
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Laurence J. Peter, paraphrasing Sir Walter Scott
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.
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Sir Francis Bacon, Of Adversity
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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Russell L. Ackoff
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.
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Thomas Jefferson
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so.
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Unknown
The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television.
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F Scott
Thirty-the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
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Mother Teresa
There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
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Ronald Reagan
I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.
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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Old Tree, 1993
Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.
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