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The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it.: Sidney J. Harris
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.: Eve Babitz
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I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.: Hillary Rodham Clinton (1948 - ), Ellen DeGeneres interview, 04-07-08
- More quotations on: [America]
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.: Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Jimmy Stewart in "Harvey", 1950
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To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
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Man always gets less than he demands from life.: Jack London (1876 - 1916), The People of the Abyss
By the time we've made it, we've had it.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.: Zach Braff
To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd.: Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said…' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.: Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 04-07-2006
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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)
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