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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.: Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
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If you look good and dress well, you don't need a purpose in life.: Robert Pante
Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.: John Erskine (1879 - 1951)
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Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.: Winston Groom, Forrest Gump
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.: Doug Larson
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.: James Madison (1751 - 1836)
I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.: Buzz Aldrin (1930 - )
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Innocents Abroad
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That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!: Tommy Smothers
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
You don't need to outdo the competition. It's expensive and defensive. Underdo your competition. We need more simplicity and clarity.: Jason Fried, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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I want to hang a map of the world in my house, and then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've travelled 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)
We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
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The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)