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I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 02-25-09
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In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.: Rabbi Seymour Siegel
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The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.': Roy Blount Jr.
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Where facts are few, experts are many.: Donald R. Gannon
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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.: Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04
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What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.: Alice Walker (1944 - ), "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?: Kelvin Throop III
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You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.: Kate Clinton
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.: Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.: Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909 - 1993), in All About Eve
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41
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A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.: Bob Edwards
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 4, 1944-1947
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
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That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.: Samuel McChord Crothers
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