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If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.: Unknown
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Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 11-06-03
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
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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)
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
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You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.: Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Gran Prix, 1994
Take what you can use and let the rest go by.: Ken Kesey (1935 - )
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.: Hasidic Saying
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.: Karen Sunde
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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005), O Magazine, September 2003
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A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.: Fats Domino (1928 - )
It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maxims, 1665
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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.: Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.: Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
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Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.: Jodie Foster (1962 - )
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)