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Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.: Aimee Mullins, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.: Muhammad Ali (1942 - )
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The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.: J. Arthur Thomson
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.: Doug Larson
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I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'utile et de l'honnete,' 1580-88
It’s really easy to complain. If you’re not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.: Lisa Williams, Bloggers In Love, SXSW 2006
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.: Jeanne Moreau
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Stop seeing the obstacles you face as reasons why you can't do something. See them as a reason why you can. And celebrate your accomplishments on a daily basis.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates'
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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I hate music, especially when it's played.: Jimmy Durante (1893 - 1980)
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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.: Marita Bonner
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.: Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)
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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.: Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
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