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I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when you’re alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartment’s redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant, 01-10-10
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If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!: Jonathan Winters
No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of few and carried in the hearts of many.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech, San Francisco, May 13, 1903
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.: Demetri Martin, New York Magazine, October 3, 2005
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey, 1818
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Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.: Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.: Sam Donaldson (1934 - )
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.: Bill Vaughan
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, 1854
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.: Sir Robert Hutchinson
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
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I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.: Etty Hillesum
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.: Joseph Chilton Pearce
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