February 2012
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519. The best way to ruin an apology is with an...
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517. You can't learn anything with your hands in...
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(via tim burke)
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I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300...
– Michael Jordan
December 2011
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Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith....
– Christopher Hitchens
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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
– Christopher Hitchens
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To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats...
– Christopher Hitchens
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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and —since there is no other...
– Christopher Hitchens
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[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
– Christopher Hitchens
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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it...
– Christopher Hitchens
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That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
– Christopher Hitchens
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The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed;...
– Christopher Hitchens
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[O]wners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water...
– Christopher Hitchens
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
– Yiddish proverb
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Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
– Aristotle
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Money cannot purchase what the heart desires.
– Chinese Proverb
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
– Arthur Miller
November 2011
3 posts
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Most people consider a glass as half empty or half full. I look at it as too...
– George Carlin
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September 2011
6 posts
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I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I...
– Lucille ball
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.
– Edgar Allan Poe
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501. Never shake a man’s hand sitting down.
rulesformyunbornson:
(via Captain Luke R. Barnes, USMC)
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
– Oscar Wilde
August 2011
2 posts
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Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong...
– Voltaire
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Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
– Eric Hoffer
July 2011
3 posts
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Don’t wait for people to be friendly. Show them how.
– Unknown
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The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago. The second best...
– James Carvillee
June 2011
2 posts
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Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.
– Jodie Foster
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as...
– Alfred Hitchcock
May 2011
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
– Josh Billings
April 2011
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March 2011
8 posts
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Who sows virtue reaps honor.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
– Lester J. Pourciau
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Today is not a preparation for tomorrow. Today’s the main event.
– Anonymous
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Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse 2010 by William Castleman
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Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
– Voltaire
February 2011
13 posts
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
– Andre Breton
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Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
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A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
– Arnold H. Glasow
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476. If I can't see your shirt cuff, your jacket...