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"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner." »Aldous Huxley
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"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." »Aldous Huxley
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"God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them." »Stephen William Hawking
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"I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on." »Roosevelt, Eleanor
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"Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him." »Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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"Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign." »Frank Crane
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"Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth corner, Vermont." »Clarence Darrow
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"During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were 'just going down to the corner.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Science is the tongue in the mouth of the Universe; it is destined to know every little corner of the cosmos." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds." »John Maynard Keynes
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"For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief." »Fernandez de Andrada
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"Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn." »Anouk Aimee
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"Many a man that couldn't direct you to the drug store on the corner when he was 3 will get a respectful hearing when age has further impaired his mind." »Finley Peter Dunne
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"How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people." »Carl Sagan
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"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide." »Norman Douglas
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"I used to date homeless chicks, they weren't very picky and at the end of the date you could just drop them off at any corner." »Tom Zegan
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"None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives." »Kathleen Norris
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"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark." »Samuel Johnson
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"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds." »Thomas Higginson
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"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door." »Albert Camus
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"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it." »Dee Hock
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"Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet." »Jeff Melvoin
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"Hello, everybody. Welcome to Kiner's corner. This is....uh. I'm...uhRalph Kiner" »Ralph Kiner
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"I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you." »Wayne Gretzky
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"If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness." »Jay Edward Adams
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"It has just been twenty-three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty-three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift." »Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
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"1. At the rise of the hand of the policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass him or otherwise disrespect him.
2. If pedestrian obstacle your path, tootle horn melodiously. If he continue to obstacle, tootle horn vigorously and utter vocal warning such as "Hi, Hi."
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5. Beware of greasy corner where lurk skid demon. Cease step on, approach slowly, round cautiously, resume step on gradually." »from an official Japanese guide for English-speaking drivers, 1936
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