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I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.: Richard Lewis
I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.: Charles Rosin, Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis, 1990
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While there's life, there's hope.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Ad Atticum
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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.: Chinese Proverb
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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.: Anonymous, (wrongly attributed to the Koran)
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The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.: Danah Boyd, apophenia, 01-08-07
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.: Robertson Davies
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The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.: Willie Tyler
Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.: Eli Attie, House M.D., Dying Changes Everything, 2008
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A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.: Frank Westheimer, Westheimers Discovery
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.: Joan Rivers (1935 - )
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It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.: Sue Grafton (1940 - ), 'H' Is for Homicide, 1991
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.: Ken Hakuta
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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)
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.: Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960)
Good food ends with good talk.: Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
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Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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