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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), "Of Beauty"
I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
Each body has its art...
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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - )
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.
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Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.
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Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
What's the point of havin' a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
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Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, #1615, March 2010
Eye contact is the best accessory.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
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Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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Jonathan Winters
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
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R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
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Leo Rosten (1908 - )
Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
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Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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