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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.: Karl von Bonstetten
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That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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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 am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.: Alexander Humboldt (1769 - 1859)
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off.: Ellen DeGeneres
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.: Eric Ambler
Luck is the residue of design.: Branch Rickey (1881 - 1965), Lecture title, 1950
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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
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In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.: Unknown
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A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.: Edward Chapin
Touch your customer, and you're halfway there.: Estee Lauder
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.: Moshe Dayan (1915 - 1981)
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We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.: Kanye West
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be.: Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891