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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.: Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.: Chinese Proverb
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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.: Phil Jackson
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To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.: Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.: Jennifer Aniston, O Magazine, February 2004
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.: Dick Cavett (1936 - )
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Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.: Mother Jones
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.: Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
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Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.: Doug Larson
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And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), Interview, April 30, 1978
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.: Henry Cate VII
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