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Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple.: Christina Petrowsky
Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.: Chilo
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Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.: John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.: J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility.: William Cobbett (1763 - 1835), Advice to Young Men, 1829
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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)
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.: Blake Clark
Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250: Harper's Index, October 1989
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.: Stephen King (1947 - )
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.: Janet Long
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People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
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The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.: Dorothee Solle
The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.: Salma Hayek, Conversation with Salma Hayek, 2002
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Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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