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If you’re not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won’t combat the caloric intake.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.: Chinese Proverb
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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.: Jim Hightower, The New York Times, March 9, 1986
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I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.: Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
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Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.: Elmer G. Letterman
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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.: Charles A. Dana (1819 - 1897)
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No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.: Judge Gideon J. Tucker
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.: Saskya Pandita
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A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
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All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.: Baltasar Gracian
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