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I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'utile et de l'honnete,' 1580-88
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.: John Hay (1838 - 1905), Distichs, latter 19th century
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The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.: Jeff Foxworthy
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.: John J. Plomp
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I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.: Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.: Johann Georg von Zimmermann
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
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A full cup must be carried steadily.: English Proverb
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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 02-23-10
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.: Latin Proverb
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Reason should direct and appetite obey.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)