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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.: Mary Wilson Little
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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Mostly Harmless"
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The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.: Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
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Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.: Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin
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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.: Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, The Baby Shower, 1998
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.: Elie Wiesel (1928 - )
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My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
Respect a man, he will do the more.: James Howell
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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
Live always in the best company when you read.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Our Tribe, 1992
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
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I'm a born-again atheist.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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Things are only impossible until they're not.: Jean-Luc Picard, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.: Salman Rushdie (1947 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.: Clementine Paddleford