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Dance is the hidden language of the soul.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.: Solomon Short
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[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.: Chinese Proverb
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How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children: Lewis B. Frumkes, Book Title (1983)
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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The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
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I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992
Only the shallow know themselves.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, 1882
When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.: John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.: Louise Beal
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.: Kathleen Norris
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Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!: Tom Lehrer (1928 - )