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I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.: Hank Green, Vlogbrothers, Cat GIF Critique, 04-26-13
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Never promise more than you can perform.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.: Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
I am no more humble than my talents require.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.: Jimmy Carter (1924 - ), in his farewell address
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The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.: Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950), A Guide to Men, 1922
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.: Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.: Maria Schell
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.: Sir Edward Appleton (1892 - 1965)
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The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself.: Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Chewed Up, 2008
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.: Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.: Belgian Proverb
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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.: Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934
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There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.: Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
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A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.: Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)
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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
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Do not employ handsome servants.: Chinese Proverb
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