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People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03
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It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
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Don’t be afraid of the answers. Be afraid of not asking the questions.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939
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Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.: Denise Levertov
Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work.: Dave Kellett, How to Blog for Money by Learning from Comics, SXSW 2006
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.: August Strindberg (1849 - 1912), A Madman's Diary, 1895
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), 1890
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A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be.: Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )
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Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.: Margaret Lee Runbeck
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
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Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.: William Cecil Burleigh
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend.: George Shelley
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I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.: Patricia Moyes