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To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.: Jim Beggs
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.: R. D. Laing
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.: Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
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Different and new is just the same old if you keep doing it over and over.: Kyran Pittman, Good Housekeeping, June 2011
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.: Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
The upper classes are... a nation's past; the middle class is its future.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
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Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
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Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.: George Asaf
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We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
If you have accomplished all that you planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.: Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-01-05
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No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.: Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)
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