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Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
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You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill 
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
- Robert Frost
Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.
There is an almost universal quest
for easy answers and half-baked solutions.
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Don't part with your illusions.
When they are gone you may still exist,
but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
- Carl Jung
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Normal is in the eye of the beholder.
- Whoopi Goldberg
Abandon hope.
- Pema Chodron
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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