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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.: Tom Hanks (1956 - )
Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
The nature of hate is mysterious. It can gnaw at the heart for an eon, then depart when one expected it to remain as immobile as a mountain. But even mountains erode.: Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow, 2019
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Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.: Andy Rooney (1919 - )
The way to final freedom is within thy self.: The Book of the Golden Precepts
If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.: Nora Ephron
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.: Willie Tyler
There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.: Solomon Short
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If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.: Carol Burnett (1936 - )
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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.: Ann Richards
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), Emile, 1762
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.: C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
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Don't let the bastards grind you down.: General Joseph W. Stilwell (1883 - 1946), Motto