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It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.: Basil King
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993
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Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin & Hobbes
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The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.: David P. Mikkelson, Snopes.com, 04-10-04
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.: Kevin Bacon, People, 06-13-2011
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.: Thomas K. Mattingly II
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Compassion isn’t being nice, she would say. It’s fighting like hell for the people who would get trampled otherwise.: Susan Kaye Quinn, You Knew the Price, 2021
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The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.: Charles DuBois
To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.: Robert J. Furey
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Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004
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Here's a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can't touch you if you're out doing something interesting.: Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, Ask a Ninja, Question 55, 10-03-07
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.: Tom Masson