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The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
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Foster's Law
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Simone de Beauvoir
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
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Bible, Old Testament
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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Colette (1873 - 1954), Paris From My Window, 1944
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'
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Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?
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Karen Hall and Jerry Stahl, Northern Exposure, Soapy Sanderson, 1990
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
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Frank Leahy
My Karma ran over your dogma.
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Unknown
When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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Ralph W. Sockman
Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.
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Alban Goodier
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.
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Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
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George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.
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Monica Baldwin
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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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