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You never can see into someone else's marriage.
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Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
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Elias Schwartz
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
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Brendan Gill
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
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.
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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.
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Alan Saporta
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.
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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.
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Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
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Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)
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.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-16-05
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.
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Antonia Brenner
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.
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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.
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Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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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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