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But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.: Dorothee Solle
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit.: Narenda Rocherolle, Cashing In or Selling Out, SXSW 2006
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - )
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), Tel Quel 2 (1943)
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The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.: John Sladek
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The American Scholar, August 31, 1837
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It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.: Freeman Dyson (1923 - )
Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.: Kathleen Norris
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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.: Mary MacCracken
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I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.: Herb Caen
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview
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The only cure for grief is action.: George Henry Lewes
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The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
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