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It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.: Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)
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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.: Robert A. Humphrey
Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tempest'
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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You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.: H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
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I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you.: Anonymous
Deal with the consequences of your actions, 'cause life ain't no video game.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.: Joseph P. Thompson
If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.: John Abrams, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.: Flip Wilson (1933 - 1998)
Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-03-04
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), 'This Is My Story,' 1937
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.: Sol Hurok