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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!: Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan, Big Bang Theory, The Agreement Dissection, 2011
Friends are born, not made.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 08-06-08
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.: Christopher Hampton
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Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.: David P. Mikkelson, Snopes.com, 04-10-04
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.: Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), 1836
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1928
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.: Erica Jong
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.: John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
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Indecision may or may not be my problem.: Jimmy Buffett
Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 12-29-05
No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten: Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten
What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.: Jim Beggs
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.: Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.: Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, pg. 1 line 3-4