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To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.: C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"
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You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.: Ed Meese (1931 - ), on the Hinckley verdict
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.: Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
Use soft words and hard arguments.: English Proverb
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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.: Thich Nhat Hanh
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Life is a zoo in a jungle.: Peter De Vries
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Tempest, Act II scene 1
It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.: Unknown
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.: Catherine de Hueck
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.: Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-28-06
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Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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When you get angry at your ex, only about 10 percent of your anger can be attributed to the current situation. The other 90 percent comes from your past experiences with your ex, as well as those with your parents, caregivers, and other significant people in your past. The current situation has simply triggered your past anger and allowed it to resurface. It’s been said that if you’re hysterical, the cause is probably historical.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.: Jacopo Sannazaro
Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?: Spike Milligan, from "The Goon Show"
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), The Exploration of Space, 1951
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.: Sir Henry Taylor
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.: Jackie Mason (1934 - )
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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and ultimately societies together.: Jane O'Reilly