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Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
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When I make up my mind to do a thing it stays made up.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.: Doris Lessing, O Magazine, October 2003
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I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring.: Sara B. Cooper, House M.D., Love Hurts, 2004
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.: Fritz Perls
If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me: Jimmy Buffett, Song Title
We all should be self-made, yes? The only question is what self you are making.: Susan Kaye Quinn, When You Had Power, 2020
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There’s a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.: John Green (1977 - ), An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
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We made a solemn vow not to take any job outside of show business. We borrowed money from parents and friends, rather than take that lethal job waiting tables. This forced us to take any job offered to us. Anything. We once did a show in the middle of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia as part of a fashion show on a hot July night while all around our stage, a race-riot was fully underway. That's how serious we were about our vow.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.: Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
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Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.: Robert Rodriguez, Spy Kids 3-D Game Over
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family.": Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up among the clouds on mountain-tops, or in balloons, or even to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground, not only to learn something of what is going on in those out-of-the-way places, but to see better what the sun sees on our return to common everyday beauty.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
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If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.: Bradley's Bromide
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.: Hob Broun
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