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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
You've got to find what you love and that is as true for work as it is for lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you've found it.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.: Czech Proverb
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Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.: Joan Didion (1934 - ), "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
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Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.: J. Bartlett Brebner
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.: Harry Golden (1902 - 1981)
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.: Alan Corenk
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My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes without having a single original thought.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The only way to have a friend is to be one.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.: Brenda Ueland
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I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.: Rita Rudner
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.: Arab Proverb
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It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.: William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstriped suit.: Senator Dianne Feinstein (1933 - )
Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dilbert, 10-26-07