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If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?: Art Hoppe
True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.: Hugh Prather
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.: Thomas Secker
Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.: David Shore, House M.D., Last Temptation, 2011
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The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.: Paula Poundstone
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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.: Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.: Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974)
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It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.: Mick Jagger (1943 - )
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.: Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918 - 1970), on refusing Western economic assistance, 'Realites,' January 20, 1969
Your primary goal should be to have a great life. You can still have a good day, enjoy your child, and ultimately find happiness, whether your ex is acting like a jerk or a responsible person. Your happiness is not dependent upon someone else.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
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