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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.: Jane E. Brody
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.: Karen Sunde
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.: Immanuel Hermann Fichte
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.: Alvin Toffler
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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.: Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964
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I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.: Leona Helmsly
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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