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I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.: Jennifer Aniston, O Magazine, February 2004
Never give a child a sword.: Latin Proverb
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
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Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.: Susan Glaspell, The Visioning, 1911
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), Tel Quel 2 (1943)
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Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.: Pierre Gallois
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I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904), 1897
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Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Address at the opening of the gubernatorial campaign, New York City, October 5, 1898
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.: Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth.": Quincy Jones, Victory of the Spirit
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.: Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989), 1958
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Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!: Matt Frewer, as Dr. Mike Stratford in "Doctor, Doctor"
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)