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Reality continues to ruin my life.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?: Margot Fonteyn (1919 - 1991)
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.: Anaïs Nin (1903 - 1977)
My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.: John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.: John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
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There's no correlation between creativity and equipment ownership. None. Zilch. Nada. Actually, as the artist gets more into his thing, and as he gets more successful, his number of tools tends to go down. He knows what works for him. Expending mental energy on stuff wastes time.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 10, 08-22-04
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.: H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937), "The Call of Cthulhu", first line
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
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Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.: Alban Goodier
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 11-29-2006
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He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend.: George Shelley
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.: Jane Howard, "Families"
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)