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In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?: Bernadette Peters, Inside the Actors Studio
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.: Richard Bach
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.: Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.: Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.: Pete Seeger
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Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.: Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
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It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.: Christopher Hampton
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Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.: Ron Nesen
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.: Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931), The Philosophy of Despair
I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.: Elizabeth Janeway, Between Myth and Morning, 1974
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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.: James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
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