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It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.: Spanish Proverb
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But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.: Jennifer Aniston, O Magazine, February 2004
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
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Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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Home is where the heart is, so your real home's in your chest.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.: Meister Eckhart
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.: Henry S. Haskins
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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.: Abigail van Buren (1918 - )
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.: Andre Agassi (1970 - ), on "Charlie Rose"
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.: Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"