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The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.: Meredith Willson, The Music Man
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown
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He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.: Unknown
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.: Edward De Bono
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Discretion is not the better part of biography.: Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932), in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
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To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
A good home must be made, not bought.: Joyce Maynard, "Domestic Affairs"
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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be.: Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )
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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 02-23-10
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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I am a deeply superficial person.: Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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