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Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.”
- Jerry Steinfeld

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
- George W. Bush

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
- Eddie Cantor

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
- H. P. Lovecraft

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
- William Penn

It's always too early to quit.
- Norman Vincent Peale

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.
- Demetri Martin

The only paradise is paradise lost.
- Marcel Proust

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
- Thomas Jefferson

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When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it.”
- Margaret Chase Smith

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
- Paul Engle

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
- P. G. Wodehouse

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
- Mark Twain

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
- Sir William Osler

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
- Charles Lamb

What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
- Jeph Jacques

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
- Willem de Kooning

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill

The Most Distant Galaxy Yet

NASA's Hubble Finds Most Distant Galaxy Candidate Ever Seen in Universe

Newswise — Astronomers have pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to its limits by finding what is likely to be the most distant object ever seen in the universe. The object's light traveled 13.2 billion years to reach Hubble, roughly 150 million years longer than the previous record holder. The age of the universe is approximately 13.7 billion years.

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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
- Andre Gide

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
- George Bernard Shaw

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
- Jane Wagner

I think it would be a good idea.
- Mahatma Gandhi

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
- Noel Coward

Reality is something you rise above.
- Liza Minnelli

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.
- Virgil

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
- Frank Wilczek

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
- C. P. Snow

War is not nice.
- Barbara Bush

FIRE TESTS GOLD; ADVERSITY GOOD MEN.
- German proverb

Know or listen to those who know.
- Baltasar Gracian

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
- W. L. George

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
- Dan Rather

Such is life!
- Ned Kelly

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
- Abdul Kalam

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
- Edmund Burke

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
- Otto von Bismarck

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
- Ernest Benn

Each day provides its own gifts.
- Marcus Aurelius

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
- Henry Kissinger

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
- George Iles

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
- Voltaire

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
- Groucho Marx

Wherever you are - be all there.
- Jim Elliot

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
- Mignon McLaughlin

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
- Samuel Johnson

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
- Denis Waitley

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
- Lewis Carroll

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
- Rita Rudner

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- Baltasar Gracian

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
- Leonard Bernstein

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
- Mark B. Cohen

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
- Alfred Hitchcock

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
- Thomas Carlyle

People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.
- Heather Armstrong

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
- Fred Allen

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
- Denis Diderot

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
- William Shakespeare

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
- J. Hart

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
- Tom Stoppard

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
- Peter Ustinov

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.
- Dave Barry

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
- Russell Baker

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
- Dale Carnegie

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
- Cullen Hightower

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
- James Thurber

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
- Charles Peters

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- Henry Ford

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, / And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
- Juvenal

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
- Robert Orben

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
- E. W. Dijkstra

I can live for two months on a good compliment.
- Mark Twain

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
- Evan Esar

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
- George Bernard Shaw

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
- Dennis Miller

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton

The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.
- Scott Adams

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
- Robertson Davies

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson

Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
- Douglas Adams

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx

A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
- Victor Hugo

The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
- David Richerby

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.
- Joe Weinstein

Be the change that you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas Gandhi

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
- Oscar Wilde

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
- Miss Piggy

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
- Margo Kaufman