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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
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If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.: Jewish Proverb
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A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes unnecessary.: Ingrid Bergman (1915 - 1982)
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
All television is children's television.: Richard P. Adler
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.: Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.: W.E.B. Du Bois, Speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, August 1906
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.: Unknown
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No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.: Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
To think about your life is to create it. You have to take ownership of where you are right now and know where you want to go before you can get there. Keep collecting evidence for your success. You can believe it, and you can be it.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.: Alexander Smith (1830 - 1867)
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The sky had never held much interest for her, being in the opposite direction one must look if one was to enjoy a book.: Hester Fox, The Last Heir to Blackwood Library, 2023
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I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The nature of hate is mysterious. It can gnaw at the heart for an eon, then depart when one expected it to remain as immobile as a mountain. But even mountains erode.: Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow, 2019
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It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.: John Andrew Holmes