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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out (a) just say 'Thank you' and sign the thing, and (b) smile in the picture, because if you try to just half-smile you're going to look constipated.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.: Norman Ford
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.: Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference
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Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.: Baltasar Gracian
No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten: Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.: Madame de Stael (1766 - 1817)
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It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.: Katharine Butler Hathaway
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I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.: Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), in Observer April 4, 1989
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.: Robert Orben
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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.: Donald Foster
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When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.: Bill Clinton (1946 - ), announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996
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