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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.: John Lilly
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To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.: Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004)
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.: Maria Schell
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.: Mickey Mouse (1928 - )
If you are capable people are happy to play with you.: Tina Fey, Interview from Second City, 2008
Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.: Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
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Literature is news that stays news.: Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972), ABC of Reading (1934) chapter 8
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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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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I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.: Cyra McFadden
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), on the radio program The Big Show, Dec. 17, 1950
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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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