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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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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
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The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), Lynn on Ideas
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
One of the common causes of serious difficulty takes the form of parental self-discovery. The newly adopted child brings out submerged feelings or behavior in his parents that make them dislike themselves. This can be such a severe blow to their self- esteem that they must eradicate the cause of their distress. Sometimes the only way that parents are able to do that is by returning the child.: Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.: Bob Moawad
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come!: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, 1599-1600
There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.: Harrison Ford (1942 - ), quoted by Garry Jenkins in 'Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero'
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Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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Those whom we support hold us up in life.: Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
It doesn't matter if you win or lose in the big, scary jungle of the real world. Winners and losers... Enemies and allies... We don't live in a comic book! This is the real deal.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park