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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
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Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
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Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
I shall not pretend that I do not prefer to have people adore me rather than revile me, but I have always found that it was far easier for me to suffer the disapprobation of others than to amend my behaviour in order to find favour with them.
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Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
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Andre Agassi (1970 - ), on "Charlie Rose"
The first time I ever read the dictionary I thought it was a poem about everything.
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Steven Wright (1955 - ), stand-up
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
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Nick Faldo
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All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
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Lenin (1870 - 1924)
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No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
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Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
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It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
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Isabel Colegate
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A friend is a gift you give yourself.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
I like life. It's something to do.
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Ronnie Shakes
Those whom we support hold us up in life.
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Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake.
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Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
Health food makes me sick.
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Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
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Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks
Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.
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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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