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If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.: Meister Eckhart
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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.: William Cobbett (1763 - 1835)
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.: Mignon McLaughlin
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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, 1604-1605
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.: Colleen Wainwright, communicatrix, 03-23-2006
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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.: George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.: Mary Catherine Bateson
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.: Cindy Gardner
Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.: Ralph Novak
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Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)