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It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.: Al Franken, 'Stuart Saves His Family'
Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.: Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
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Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.: Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992
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I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 05, 2004
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One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.: George Winters
Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.: Noah Porter (1811 - 1892)
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Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.: M. F. K. Fisher
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Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?: Josh Brand and John Falsey, Northern Exposure, The Pilot, 1990
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I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), in Look, Apr. 3, 1956
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.: Pierre Charron
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We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)