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In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.: Roger Allen
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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), "Keep the Faith, Baby!", 1967
The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.: Ellen DeGeneres
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.: Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
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Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.: Bible, Old Testament
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Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.: Bob Thaves, "Frank and Ernest", 1982
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.: Josiah Quincy
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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
Respect a man, he will do the more.: James Howell
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.: Colette (1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.: Barbara Mikkelson, snopes.com, May 15, 2001
What I learned from Weight Watchers is that food was meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If we are using it for any other reasons, it is time to take a step back and ask ourselves what’s up.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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