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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.: Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
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I don’t think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 20, 2003
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.: Max Frisch
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You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block.: John Rogers, Kung Fu Monkey, 06-25-11
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It never hurts to ask. Unless you ask for hurt.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Facts are the enemy of truth.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Man of La Mancha
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.: Inigo DeLeon
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It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.: Franklin P. Jones
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.: Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
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