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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.: Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
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People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.: Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-29-06
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.: Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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There is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?: Harry Shearer
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His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.: Nicholas Butler (1862 - 1947)
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
Most people see themselves a certain way their entire lives. When they go through a massive change, such as losing weight, they have to learn to see themselves in a new way. It is one of the biggest struggles her members deal with on their journey.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!: Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan, Big Bang Theory, The Agreement Dissection, 2011
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)