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Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.: Robin Williams (1951 - )
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.: Fred Thompson, Speech before the Commonwealth Club of California
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I cannot live without books.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.: Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.: Salma Hayek
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.: Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937), Courage, 1927
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How could it be? She watched, observed, reflected, and finally determined that this was not a case of fortitude or of resignation only. A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.: The Belzer Rabbi
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.: Rita Rudner
Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.: Christopher Reeve
You can cover a great deal of country in books.: Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912)
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Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.: Ernie Kovacs
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Travels in Alaska by John Muir, 1915, chapter 1
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Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.: Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005)
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.: Jeff Foxworthy
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