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A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
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W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth our powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852), Address at the laying of the cornerstone of the bunker hill monument
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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
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Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.
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Ann Richards
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
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John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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Just because this isn't in your life plan doesn't mean this isn't exactly where you're supposed to be.
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Nahnatchka Khan , Don't Trust the B- in Apartment 23, Daddy's Girl, April 2012
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
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Robert Sternberg
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The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Felix Holt, the Radical, 1866
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
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George Tooker
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Complain to one who can help you.
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Yugoslav Proverb
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After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted.
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De la Lastra's Corollary
He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it.
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Heather Armstrong, Dooce Plugs In, 07-12-06
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
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Jacques Delille
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Marian Evans
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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