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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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The more I know about business, the more I'm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 09-17-08
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Discretion is not the better part of biography.: Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932), in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
It is easier to stay out than get out.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.: Ausonius
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Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.: Ron Nesen
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.: Tom Masson
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, July 12, 1711
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...: Donald Barthelme
Why do we have to wait for special moments to say nice things or tell people we care about them?: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 12-09-05
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.: Bonnie Prudden
I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.: George Best
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility.: William Cobbett (1763 - 1835), Advice to Young Men, 1829
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It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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