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#1

“Everybody's born to do a certain thing
and if you're dead jimmy you've found it.
And if you're good at something,
just keep doing it
until you're fed up...then do something else.
look..
You're here to make babies and look after the place.
You know ?"
(Billy Connolly) Spoken Word on
Spiritual city: -Off of Glastonbury Song”
― Mike Scott

tags: the-waterboys

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#2

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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#3

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

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#4

“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading

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#5

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational-love, misattributed

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#6

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen

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#7

“Despair has its own calms.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: dracula

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#8

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

tags: acceptance, friendship

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#9

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
― Alice Walker

tags: art, bad, good, writing

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#10

“In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.”
― Starhawk, Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising

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#11

“George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.”
― Margaret Cho

tags: bush-sucks, humor

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#12

“I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.”
― Margaret Cho

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#13

“I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?”
― Margaret Cho

tags: bisexuality, cho, gay, minority-groups, parade, pride, promiscuity, sexuality, tramp

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#14

“What have you been reading, The Gospel according to St. Bastard?!”
― Eddie Izzard

tags: absurd

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#15

“They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.”
― Eddie Izzard

tags: humor

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#16

“Cake or death?”
― Eddie Izzard

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#17

“Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.”
― Frank Delaney, The Matchmaker of Kenmare

tags: friendship, love, the-matchmaker-of-kenmare

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#18

“Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.”
― Frank Delaney, The Matchmaker of Kenmare

tags: difficulties, life, perseverance, the-matchmaker-of-kenmare

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#19

“Every pain is a lesson.”
― Frank Delaney, The Matchmaker of Kenmare

tags: learning, lesson, lessons, pain, perseverance, the-matchmaker-of-kenmare

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#20

“Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.”
― John Hodgman

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#21

“A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.”
― John Hodgman, More Information Than You Require

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#22

“Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the most blessed, the writer, of all people, replaces that ordering principle. Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that, while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
― John Hodgman

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#23

“I have learned that newborn infants roll their eyes around and move their heads and their arms in short jerky spasms. And if you homeschool them, they will stay this way forever.”
― John Hodgman, The Areas of My Expertise: An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order

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#24

“That which is hard to do is best done bitterly.”
― John Hodgman, More Information Than You Require

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#25

“It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.”
― John Hodgman

tags: book-stores, books, borders

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#26

“I still have a fondness for books. Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over there? What is that, a candlestick telephone, one of those old pull-chain toilets? Oh no, it's a book. I used to help make those things! I will buy it and use it to decorate my chain of casual family-dining restaurants.”
― John Hodgman

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#27

“How to Win a Fight - Step 1: Always make eye contact. Step 2: Go ahead and use henchmen - these days it's unnecessary and frowned upon to fight your own battles, especially with so many henchmen out of work. Step 3: Run lots of attack ads - I have run about 500 attack ads this year, and I expect that I will buy even more air time next year, because my enemies are getting stronger.”
― John Hodgman, The Areas of My Expertise: An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order

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#28

“Manly deeds, womanly hands.”
― John Hodgman, The Areas of My Expertise: An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order

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#29

“Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he did what any friend would: He set out to prove spiritualism false and rob his friend Doyle of the only comforting fiction that was keeping him sane. It was the least he could do.”
― John Hodgman, That is All

tags: arthur-conan-doyle, debunking, friendship, harry-houdini, spiritualism

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