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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.: John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.: Robert Anton Wilson
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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.: Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
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I take care of my things. After all, those of us as has few things to begin with must take care, lest we have fewer.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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A finished person is a boring person.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.: Cynthia Ozick
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.: George W. Bush (1946 - ), Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.: Gail Pool
That's the thing about needs. Sometimes, when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, The Good Fight, 2002
I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did.: Salma Hayek
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.: Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907