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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
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Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-27-04
Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.
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Burk Hudson
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
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Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Vedanta for the Western World, 1945
Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal.
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David Assael, Northern Exposure, Spring Break, 1991
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.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.
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John Green, Vlogbrothers, Is College Worth It?, 08-21-12
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), in Good Housekeeping
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
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Rita Rudner
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
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Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.
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Belle Livingstone
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
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Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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