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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.: Harold Rosenberg
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Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.: Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683), The Compleat Angler, 1653
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.: Albert Ellis
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Music at Night", 1931
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If you’re not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won’t combat the caloric intake.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.: Leonard Louis Levinson
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.: John M. Ford
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3
Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.: Unknown
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.: Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
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The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.: Joseph Farrell
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Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Impact of Science on Society (1952) ch. 1