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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.: Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
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A hug is a wonderful thing. It makes you feel wanted, needed, and loved all at the same time.: Gregory Garcia and Dan Coscino, Raising Hope, Happy Halloween, October 26, 2010
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
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The best way to learn to be an honest, responsible adult is to live with adults who act honestly and responsibly.: Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978
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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.: David M. Ogilvy
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.: Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.: Rabbi Abraham Heschel
A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.: Willis Player
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.: Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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Charity sees the need not the cause.: German Proverb
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Boxing is just show business with blood.: Frank Bruno
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.: Leo Burnett
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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