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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
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Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.: Dianne Hales
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Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.: M. C. Richards
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Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.: Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.: Henry Stimson (1867 - 1950)
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The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.: Norman Brenner
You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable.: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, A Wing and a Prayer, 1994
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Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.: Spike Milligan
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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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