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I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.: Beryl Pfizer
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.: Edgard Varese (1883 - 1965)
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.: Flip Wilson (1933 - 1998)
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow them.: Madame de Stael (1766 - 1817)
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The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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The best way to get approval is not to need it.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 27, 08-22-04
We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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It's a dangerous business going out your front door.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Children will adapt to nearly any rule or routine as long as it is consistently enforced within that particular household.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.: Harold Bloom (1930 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
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