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Each body has its art...: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - )
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.: Barry Switzer (1937 - )
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In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
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Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.: Unknown
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.: Robert Bloch (1917 - 1994)
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, November 2009
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The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.: William Gibson (1948 - )
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I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.: Martha Stewart, in McCall's
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.: Mickey Rooney (1920 - )
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In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait.: Jose Simon
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.: William James (1842 - 1910)
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