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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.: Rita Rudner
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Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.: Evan Davis
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.: Chinese Proverb
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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.: Moshe Dayan (1915 - 1981)
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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!': John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.: Bruce Barton
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.: Carol Burnett (1936 - )
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Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
Did I ever tell you about a nasty habit that flight attendants pick up on the job? We learn to always keep smiling, even when we're out of Bloody Mary Mix.: Eric Wald, View From The Top, 2003
If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.: Alan Patrick Herbert
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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....: Carl Zwanzig
You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
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The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.: Pierre Charron
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