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The best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit", 1887
'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.: George Ade (1866 - 1944), "The Steel Box", 1898
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act I
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.: Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
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Better to look weak and be strong than to look strong and be weak.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: 35 Minutes from Home, 05-19-12
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Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.: John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922)
I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
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Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.: Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
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I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.: Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
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I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
All television is children's television.: Richard P. Adler
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Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)