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A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.: Joey Adams
A finished person is a boring person.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.: Etty Hillesum, O Magazine, October 2002
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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
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The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.: Greg Garcia, Raising Hope, Dead Tooth, 09-28-10
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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.: Maxine Waters, in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, 1989
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We are always the same age inside.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough for Love, 1978
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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.: Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.: Ellis Peters
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.: Jose Marti
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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)