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Thinking you won’t die is yet another side effect of dying.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.: Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
A Hospital is no place to be sick.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.: William Arthur Ward
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.: David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945)
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.: Spanish Proverb
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.: Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
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Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.: Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.: Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.: Andy Rooney (1919 - )
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), Letter to Gay, October 6, 1727
Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.: Solomon Short
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Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.: Unknown
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.: Unknown
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.: John Updike (1932 - )
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The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.: Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
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