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We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
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If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.: Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978
As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.: H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925), King Solomon's Mines
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.: Richard Greenberg, NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006
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Lies are like children: they're hard work, but it's worth it because the future depends on them.: Pam Davis, House M.D., It's A Wonderful Lie, 2008
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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
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?: Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"
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No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Koichi Mano
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.: Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-28-06
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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), "Job", 1984
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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.: Anna Freud (1895 - 1982)
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.: Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929)
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I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.: Roger Moore (1927 - )
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