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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
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The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it.: John Eliot, Ph.D., Reverse Psychology for Success
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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.: Billy Crystal (1947 - )
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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.: Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticult Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.: Arnold Bennett
Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.: Cher (1946 - )
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Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Self-Dependence'
The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
My toughest fight was with my first wife.: Muhammad Ali (1942 - )
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare
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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.: Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.: Marcus Bridgstocke