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Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.: Thomas Tusser, 1524
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The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.: Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC - 27 BC)
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.: Quentin Crisp
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Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.: Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten: Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten
He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.: Chinese Proverb
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Courage is saying, "Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else.": Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.: Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Russian Flu, 1990
Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03-22-05
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.: John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
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It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), The Man Upstairs (1914)
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.: William Gibson (1948 - )
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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.: Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
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Life is a zoo in a jungle.: Peter De Vries
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To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.: Cynthia Ozick
One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)