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It’s helpful to imagine your relationship with him or her as a business relationship rather than a personal one. Just as you wouldn’t share that you’re feeling fat, ugly, and depressed with a client or tell her that you’ve just met the love of your life and you’ve never been happier, these thoughts and feelings should be kept to yourself and not shared with your ex. Finally, as in any good business relationship, be honest and prepared to deliver what you promise.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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I bet the human brain is a kludge.: Marvin Minsky
What luck for rulers that men do not think.: Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.: Graffito
The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.: Franklin P. Jones
So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.': Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?: Kanye West, Rolling Stone, 2006
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There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.: Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, March 10, 2008
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.: Alice Munro
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He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think interior decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.: Henry George (1839 - 1897)
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The average person thinks he isn't.: Father Larry Lorenzoni
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Life of Boerhaave
Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?: Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970), in "Les Mots du General", 1962
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.: Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974)
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A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.: Katharine Whitehorn
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