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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), 'This Is My Story,' 1937
Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.: Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
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Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.: Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 11-06-03
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I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.: Mario Puzo (1920 - 1999), 'The Godfather'
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.: Rita Mae Brown
There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
Conceit is God's gift to little men.: Bruce Barton
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We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.: Don Delillo
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.: Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)
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Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Here Lies (1939), "The Little Hours"
The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.: King Farouk of Egypt (1920 - 1965), 1948