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"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." »Neil Armstrong
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"I don't think I'm ever more 'aware' than I am right after I hit my thumb with a hammer." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule." »Samuel Butler
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"The majority-rule society has produced nothing more than heart-ache and intolerance. Throughout this majority-rule period it has been the members of the minority who have made an impact. It only takes one person to kill a hundred. It only takes one dictator to oppress millions. For better or for worse, it is the daring few who have shaped this so-called majority-rule society." »Jonar Nader
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"Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales." »Byron J. Langenfeld
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"There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule." »George Osner
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"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others." »Edward Abbey
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"To keep the fire burning brightly, there's one easy rule keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart -- about a finger's breadth -- for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule." »Marnie Reed Crowell
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"Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions." »Holly Lisle
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"Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents." »John W. Gardner
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"Let the cats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of mousetraps! Let the rats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of dogs!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"CHRIS The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Knowledge doesn't come cheap my friend. CHRIS Good or bad, curiosity is woven into our DNA like tonsils or like the opposable thumb. It's the fire under the ass of the human experience" »Jeffrey Vlaming
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"They should rule who are able to rule best." »Aristotle
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"Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances." »Euripides
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"Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything." »W. Clement Stone
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"Nature provides exceptions to every rule." »Margaret Fuller
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"An unpopular rule is never long maintained." »Seneca
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"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use." »William James
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"Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men." »Mortimer Adler
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"A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 2.
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"As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see." »Richard Bach
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"The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts." »Paul Erlich
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"The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you." »Katharine Whitehorn
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"The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon." »Amy Vanderbilt
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"He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind." »German proverb
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"I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right--then go ahead." »Davy Crockett
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"Here's a rule I recommend Never practice two vices at once." »Tallulah Bankhead
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"The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule." »Albert Einstein
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"Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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