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If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough: Mario Andretti (1940 - )
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.: Edmund Wilson (1895 - 1972)
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Art is science made clear.: Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
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You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Parents are never as bad as kids think they are.: Matt Witten, House M.D., Cursed, 2004
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Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.: Dr. Howard Murphy
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.: Abigail van Buren (1918 - )
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.: Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.: Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004
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Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.: Jay Leno (1950 - )
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