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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
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Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
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Krishnamurti
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
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Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
[Spring is] when life's alive in everything.
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Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
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Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
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Doug Larson
Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.
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Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
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M. Cartmill
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
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Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
None of us is as smart as all of us.
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Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
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Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
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Diane Ackerman
If you can't be funny, be interesting.
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Harold Ross
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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