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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
Charity sees the need not the cause.: German Proverb
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There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.: Kathleen A. Sutton
Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.: Norman Douglas
Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.: M. C. Richards
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You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.: Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a Winner
There must be more to life than having everything.: Maurice Sendak (1928 - )
He talked with more claret than clarity.: Susan Ertz
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.: Martin Mull (1943 - )
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Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we’re ready.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 12-30-05
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958
I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.: John L. Motley (1814 - 1877)
No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.: Marvin Minsky
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When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)