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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.: Joan Baez (1941 - )
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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I don't think it's good that we're perceived as different I think it's important we're perceived as MUCH BETTER. If being different is essential to doing that, then we have to do that, but if we could be much better without being different, that'd be fine with me. I want to be much better! I don't care about being different, but we'll have to be different in some ways to be much better.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.: Lane Olinghouse
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.: Lichty and Wagner
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People are always trying to [mess] up other people's live's by telling lies about 'em. You wanna really [mess] somebody's life up? Tell the truth about 'em. They ain't never gonna be the same.: Brian Buckner, True Blood, Bad Blood, 2010
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.: Seth Hoffman, House M.D., 2010
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Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
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Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.': Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.: Allan Goldfein
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.: William Penn (1644 - 1718)
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Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1737
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.: R. H. Grant
The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun.: Jenny Bicks, Sex and the City, A Woman's Right To Shoes, 2003