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He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.: Pierre Charron
The world belongs to the energetic.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
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Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.: Jane Wagner
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.: Fritz Perls
I love stuff as much as the next guy, but I’ve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of acquiring it, the price of having it is freedom.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 06-23-09
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Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them. Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.: Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.: Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.: Roger Allen
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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), "The Peter Principle"
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
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It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.: King Charles I, of England
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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