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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.: Moliere (1622 - 1673)
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To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.: Jack Handey (1949 - )
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.: Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
I think the world is run by 'C' students.: Al McGuire
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Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.: The Mishnah
One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
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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Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.: Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.: Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974)
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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.: Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
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Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
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The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.: Garth Brooks, Country Music
Nothing fails like success.: Gerald Nachman
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.: James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
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Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.: Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
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I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.: Paula Poundstone
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Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.: Mary Hirsch
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