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You never can see into someone else's marriage.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.: Elias Schwartz
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.: Brendan Gill
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If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.: Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
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Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.: The Book of the Dead, The Address to the Gods, 1700-1000 B.C.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.: Alan Saporta
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992
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Someone's boring me. I think it's me.: Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)
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It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-16-05
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I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.: Antonia Brenner
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.: Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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