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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.: David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945)
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
I dote on his very absence.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.: Paul Dudley White
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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.: James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
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Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.: Irma Kurtz, Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 2003
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
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As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Deeds, not words shall speak me.: John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)
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I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.: Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
[S]he refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring.: Zelda Fitzgerald, 1922
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I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.: James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003
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I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.: Adele Brookman