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What we play is life.: Louis Armstrong (1900 - 1971)
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.: G. Gordon Liddy
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Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.: Peggy Noonan (1950 - ), in Good Housekeeping
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.: Robert Fulghum (1937 - ), It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Music is essentially useless, as life is.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
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The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself. As long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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What's another word for Thesaurus?: Steven Wright (1955 - )
I am never afraid of what I know.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878)
Only the mediocre are always at their best.: Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.: Indian Proverb
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Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.: Emile Coue (1857 - 1926)
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.: Wendell Berry
When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-08-04
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I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.: Ellen DeGeneres
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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