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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.: Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
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It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 04-11-2006
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have.: Edward Clarke
When someone wants to lose weight, they will do whatever it takes. They can’t do it for anyone else but themselves. It has to be for them alone. Without that understanding, they will fail.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.: M. F. K. Fisher
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It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.: Norman Maclean
In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.: Dorothea Dix (1802 - 1887)
We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.: Tom Clancy (1947 - )
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.: Ellen DeGeneres
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"
I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog comments, 06-11-04
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Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.: Maria Schell
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.: Paul Eldridge
I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.: Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
I think it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice, if it doesn't lead to a crime.: Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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