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Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.: David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.: Stephen King (1947 - ), "Hearts in Atlantis"
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Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.: Italian Proverb
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.: Karl von Bonstetten
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41
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I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when you’re alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartment’s redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant, 01-10-10
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.: Colette (1873 - 1954), 'Freedom,' 1908
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.: Harrison Ford (1942 - ), quoted by Garry Jenkins in 'Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero'
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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?: Scott Adams (1957 - )
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Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.: Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 08-12-05
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We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maximes (1678)
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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.: Jay Leno (1950 - )
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.: Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
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