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Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
A way to a man's heart is through his stomach, that shit true as gold. You put some love in your food and a fool can taste it.: Raelle Tucker, True Blood, Cold Ground, 2008
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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An idea is salvation by imagination.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.: Saki (1870 - 1916), "The Square Egg", 1924
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.: Ken Kesey (1935 - )
She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.: Sol Hurok
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
I'm a fan of laundry: the smell of fabric softener, the warm clothes in your hands. It's so good.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.: Rosie O'Donnell, Today Show interview, 04-08-08
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We go where our vision is.: Joseph Murphy
How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), in Christian Science
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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