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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.
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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 11-14-08
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
Grief does not change you, it reveals you.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
I never dared to be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), 'Ten Mills,' A Further Range, 1936
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
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Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
What I learned from Weight Watchers is that food was meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If we are using it for any other reasons, it is time to take a step back and ask ourselves what’s up.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
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Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
You don't have to die in order to make a living.
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Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 10-14-05
I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.
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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
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Burnadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul, 1969
The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.
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Sharon Gold
Life is a risk.
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Diane Von Furstenberg
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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J. D. Salinger (1919 - )
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
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Sir Julian Huxley (1887 - 1975)
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
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Don Delillo
We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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