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sanctuary :: delight :: quotes
Some of the quotations which have guided, amused, and/or sustained me:
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"It is better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle."
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-- Garrison Keillor
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"Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts." |
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-- Walt Kelly
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"Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, then sold off piece by piece." |
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-- Lisa Simpson
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"For every complex problem, there is an answer that is short, simple, and wrong." |
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-- H.L.Mencken
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"If we don't change our direction, we're likely to end up where we're headed" |
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-- Chinese Proverb
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"With this crowd in charge, the direction I'd take is toward Mexico" |
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-- Porky Pine (Pogo, by Walt Kelly)
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"You can lead a yak to water, but you can't teach an old dog how to make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke" |
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-- Opus (Bloom County, by Berkeley Breathed)
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"Anime -- it's not just a hobby. It's a lifelong dedication to poverty." |
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-- Fernando Lopez
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"Reaching consensus in a group often is confused with finding the right answer." |
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-- Norman Mailer
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"When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb." |
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-- Steve Haflich
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"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about." |
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-- John von Neumann
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"Are the noises in your head bothering me?" |
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-- Joan Tine
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"You're not going crazy... you're going sane in a crazy world!" |
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-- The Tick
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"If this world made sense, men would ride sidesaddle" |
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-- Rita Mae Brown
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"WINDOWS95: It's like upgrading from Reagan to Bush." |
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-- Andy Ihnatko
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"Don't anthropomorphize computers. They hate that." |
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-- Russ Leach
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"If HP had invented sushi, they would have called it Dead, Raw Fish" |
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-- unknown
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"Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?" |
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-- unknown
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"There are two sources of unhappiness in life. One is not getting what you want; the other is getting it." |
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-- George Bernard Shaw
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"Even when the right tune is playing, nobody tells you to get up and dance." |
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-- unknown
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"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them." |
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-- C.G.Jung
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"Ignorance takes you more places than knowledge." |
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-- old saying
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"Rejection is the way people who are unable to be your friends self-select themselves out of your social environment." |
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-- Dhanu River
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"If you're already falling, you might as well try to fly." |
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-- unknown
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"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has survival value." |
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-- Arthur C. Clarke
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"When aiming for the common denominator, be prepared for the occasional division by zero." |
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-- unknown
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"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is that which inevitably must make you lonely." |
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-- Lorraine Hansberry
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"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." |
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-- Faith Whittlesey
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"Only dead fish swim with the current." |
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-- unknown
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"Be the best. Have fun. No compromise." |
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-- BurgerVille mission statement
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sanctuary | lovelyangel | gallery | journey | reflection | inspiration | delight | escape |
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Copyright 1997 - 2004 Amy K. Sakurai |
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