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The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
Life is consciousness.
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Emmet Fox
I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
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Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite.
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Liz Friedman, House M.D., Hunting, 2005
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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Irish Proverb
The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.
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Arnold Palmer (1929 - )
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
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Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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Henry J. Tillman
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
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Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
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Madame de Tencin
[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
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Thomas Dekker (1572 - 1632)
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
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Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
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Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
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Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 3, 1939-1944
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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J. G. Holland
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
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Joan Rivers (1935 - )
This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
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William Goldman, The Princess Bride
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
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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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