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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
In summer, the song sings itself.
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William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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Tina Turner (1938 - ), O Magazine, December 2003
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
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Charles Buxton
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
When a problem can’t be solved, an attitude of acceptance makes room in your mind and heart for solutions to the problems that do need to be solved.
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Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Edward De Bono
Silence is more musical than any song.
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Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.
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David Assael, Northern Exposure, Our Tribe, 1992
It doesn't matter if you win or lose in the big, scary jungle of the real world. Winners and losers... Enemies and allies... We don't live in a comic book! This is the real deal.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self-Reliance", 1841
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
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Erma Bombeck (1927 - 1996)
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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George Burns (1896 - 1996)
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
Literature is news that stays news.
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Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972), ABC of Reading (1934) chapter 8
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
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Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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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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