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I live in the present due to the constraints of the Space-Time Continuum.: Hank Green
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.: Jean Kerr
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Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), Taken Care Of ,1965
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Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?: George Price
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), The Man Upstairs (1914)
Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.: Barbara Schapiro, O Magazine, May 2003
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.: Paul Tournier
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Genius is of no country.: Charles Churchill
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Strive for excellence, not perfection.: H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go... And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.: Gloria Naylor
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.: Hobart Brown
If you bow at all, bow low.: Chinese Proverb
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