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The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.: Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
Change your thoughts and you change your world.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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Let's assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different. To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.: John Fischer
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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Only sick music makes money today.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Der Fall Wagner, Section 5
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.: Frederick William Robertson
A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things - a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.: John Grogan, Marley and Me, 2005
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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.: Germaine Greer, O Magazine, September 2002
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Sometimes people are on the outside looking in because they don’t have any money. But sometimes people are on the outside looking in because they don’t have any class.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant blog, 09-12-06
Health is not valued till sickness comes.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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In the end, everything is a gag.: Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.: Rita Rudner
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), Letter to her brother, 1894
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
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Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms... This is a process that requires trust and builds trust.: Mary Field Belenky, Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind, p. 187
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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