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If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. (Quote by - Earl Wilson)

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. (Quote by - Chang-tzu)

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. (Quote by - C. G. Jung)

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. (Quote by - Paul Boese)

If .. 'Ifs and buts' were candy and nuts...oh, what a party we would have. (Quote by - H. Bergh)

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. (Quote by - Langston Hughes)

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. (Quote by - Fred Allen)

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. (Quote by - Ben Elton)

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. (Quote by - Alexander Graham Bell)

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)

The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. (Quote by - John Allston)

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. (Quote by - H. R. Haldeman)

You are no better than you should be. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont)

We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry. (Quote by - English Proverb)

On all the peaks lies peace. (Quote by - Goethe)

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. (Quote by - J. A. Dever)

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. (Quote by - Flower A. Newhouse)

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. (Quote by - Dylan Thomas)

There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live. (Quote by - Fortune)

We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. (Quote by - Arthur Hays Sulzberger)

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. (Quote by - Nietzsche)

Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot. (Quote by - Irish Proverb)

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. (Quote by - Socrates)

In time of war the first casualty is truth. (Quote by - Boake Carter)

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. (Quote by - Goethe)

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