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Dreams alone aren't enough to make your belly full.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
One should count each day a separate life.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.: Ellis Peters
What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.: Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
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If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 6, 08-22-04
Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.: Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
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I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.: Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
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Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.: Dorothy Draper
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Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.: David Letterman (1947 - )
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.: George F. Will (1941 - )
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Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.: Richard Rybolt
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For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.: Marilyn C. Barrick
When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.: Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, 2009
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