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I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.: Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
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Good food ends with good talk.: Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.: Albanian Proverb
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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.: Ann Richards
Different and new is just the same old if you keep doing it over and over.: Kyran Pittman, Good Housekeeping, June 2011
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "All's Well That Ends Well", Act 1 Scene 1
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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
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There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.: Virginia Kelley
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.: Louis I Kahn
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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.: Stephen Nachmanovitch
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A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.: H. Mathews
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.: Chinese Proverb
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