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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
Your primary goal should be to have a great life. You can still have a good day, enjoy your child, and ultimately find happiness, whether your ex is acting like a jerk or a responsible person. Your happiness is not dependent upon someone else.
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Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
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Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.
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Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 2001
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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William Blake (1757 - 1827)
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893), act III
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
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Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
He who would travel happily must travel light.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
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H. Mathews
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
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Pablo Casals (1876 - 1973), O Magazine, October 2003
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995)
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Bill Vaughan
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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