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A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
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If you continue to expend your energy trying to change things that don’t really matter in the long run or that are not within your sphere of influence, you’ll wind up exhausted and frustrated, with no positive results to show for your effort.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
It is fun to be in the same decade with you.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), in a letter to Winston Churchill
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.: Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
A Hospital is no place to be sick.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.: Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.: George Meany
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects, bk. 11:11
In a mad world only the mad are sane.: Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)
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When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.: Emile Chartier
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.: Unknown
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.: Garrison Keillor (1942 - )
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I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.: Will Durst
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Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.: Clementine Paddleford
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.: Dutch Proverb
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
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