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A hug is a wonderful thing. It makes you feel wanted, needed, and loved all at the same time.: Gregory Garcia and Dan Coscino, Raising Hope, Happy Halloween, October 26, 2010
Vigorous writing is concise.: William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
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Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 08-23-11
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.: Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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I really feel as if the things we create together are not things we devised, but things we discovered, as if, in some sense, they were always there in us, waiting to be revealed, like the figure of Mercury waiting in a rough lump of marble.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.: Bruce Barton
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What you risk reveals what you value.: Jeanette Winterson
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Life is just one damned thing after another.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1808
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The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.: Doris Day (1924 - )
The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.: Vidal Sassoon
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
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Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.: Jerry Flint, in Forbes