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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.: Olin Miller
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.: Peter McArthur
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.: William Wrigley Jr. (1861 - 1932)
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09-17-05
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), 'Black Power: A Form of Godly Power,' 1967
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), 'Poor Richard's Almanack,' June 1746
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the mann in which he behaves toward fools.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.: Rebecca Beard
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946), in Richard J. Anobile - "Godfrey Daniels"
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.: Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.: Robert Byrne