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What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.: Dorothy Draper
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Man is what he believes.: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
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Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 06-10-04
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In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.: Jeffery F. Chamberlain
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Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.: Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2002
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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839
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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.: Eugene S. Wilson
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My computer beat me at chess... so I beat it at kickboxing.: Demetri Martin
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Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.: Rita Mae Brown
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.: Michelle Burford, O Magazine, 2003
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