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I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Here Lies (1939), "The Little Hours"
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
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William Arthur Ward
To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.
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Daniel Considine
It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.
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John Green, Vlogbrothers, Is College Worth It?, 08-21-12
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
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Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.
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Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
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Poul Anderson (1926 - 2001)
Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'King Lear,' Act I, Scene iv
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
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We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
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Roy M. Goodman
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
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Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ), Metropolitan Life, 1978
Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.
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Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
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Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
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Hyman Rickover (1900 - 1986)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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