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David Ogilivy

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

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Bill Parcells

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Louis Pasteur

Chance favors the prepared mind.

Petco Radio Commercial

"Loving you is just like swimming upstream."

Elizabeth Peters

Silhouette in Scarlett

Whistling, he opened the refrigerator door and draped himself over it, staring into the fridge in that maddening way men and children have, as if they expected a seven-course meal to materialize on a shelf.

Picasso

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after he (she) grows up.
Some painters turn a yellow dot into the sun, others turn the sun into a yellow dot.

Marcel Proust

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

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Theodore Reik

Work and love - these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Jules Renard

Love is like an hourglass with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Philip Roth

...when I was a tiny child I turned from the window out of which I was watching a snow storm and hopefuilly asked, "Momma, do we believe in Winter?"

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Antoine de Saint-Euxpery

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Virginia Satir

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

Anne Wilson Schaef

To be able to listen to the silence is to be able to hear the infinite.

N. F. Simon

We cannot leave the haphazard to chance.

Socrates

Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue – to the end of that we should hear and see more than we speak.

Soul Asylum

"Homesick"

There are no secret tricks, no correct politics, just liars and lunatics.

Star Trek Generations

Sauren -
Normal is what everyone else is, and you are not.

Jonathan Swift

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

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William Temple

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you'll land among the stars.

Bodie Thoene

Warsaw Requiem

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.

Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.
A wise man will only be useful as a man, and will not submit to be "clay," and "stop a hole to keep the wind away,"...
If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. I wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. I felt as if I alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. They plainly did not know how to treat me, but behaved like persons who are underbred. In every threat and in every compliment there was a blunder; for they thought that my chief desire was to stand the other side of that stone wall. I could not but smile to see how industriously they locked the door on my meditations, which followed them out again without let or hindrance, and they were really all that was dangerous. As they could not reach me, they resolved to punish my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some person against whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog. I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.
I perceive that when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain inert to make way for the other, but both obey their own laws, and spring and grow and flourish as best they can, till one, perchance, overshadows and destroys the other. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
I will breathe after my own fashion.
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue for every virtuous man.
Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a man is also in prison.
What is the price-current of an honest man...
...You may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produce a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? Or small movable forts and magazines at the service of some unscrupulous man in power?

I'd rather sit alone on a pumpkin than crowded on a velvet cushion.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
Most men live lives of quiet desperation.
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

Harry Turtledove

The Misplaced Legion

Failure was no disgrace; indifference was.

Mark Twain

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the chief difference between a dog and man.
I was grateful to answer promptly and I did. I said I didn't know.
I wonder if God invented men because he was disappointed with the monkey.
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Man is the only creature that has found true religion. Several of them.
There are Congressmen and there are damned liars...but I repeat myself.
To promise not to do a thing is the best way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
We vanish from a world where we are of no consequence; where we achieved nothing; where we were a mistake and a failure and a foolishness; where we have left no sign that we existed - a world which will lament us a day and forget us forever.

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Paul Vallery

Love is being stupid together.

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Edith Wharton

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

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Before we can explore the world we must first explore our own minds.
Every silence has a melody all its own.
Ignorance is bliss.
One alone in the wilderness is never bored, nor does he feel the despair of a meaningless job - to the contrary, everything is invested with meaning, some of it dire, indeed; but in the heart of a great city that tramples the stars themselves underfoot, one needs ceaseless entertainment to distract him from the knowledge of his vileness, which lies about him, everywhere. The herb of our cure is a bitter one, but know it we will.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
The easiest way to touch someone else's heart is with your own.
The foundation of understanding is the willingness to listen.
The greatest acts of love are done by those who habitually perform small acts of kindness.
The past cannot be changed, but the future is whatever you want it to be.
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left.
When you stop to think don't forget to start up again.

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