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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.: Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006)
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.: Etty Hillesum
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.: Charles De Secondat (1689 - 1755)
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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.: Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
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...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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Boxing is just show business with blood.: Frank Bruno
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661), 'The Holy State and the Profane State,' 1642
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.: R. D. Hitchcock
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.: Dale Carnegie
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The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.: Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
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