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Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.: Eddie Izzard
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.: Craig Newmark (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.: Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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No.: Amy Carter, (President Jimmy Carter's daughter) when asked by a reporter if she had any message for the children of America
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
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When people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.: Frank Wilczek (1951 - )
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.: Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968), 'No Man Is an Island'
The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it.: Sidney J. Harris
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
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People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.: Howard Newton
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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.: Robert Fripp
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Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.: Muriel Fox