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Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The Tempest'
Some things have to be believed to be seen.: Ralph Hodgson, on ESP
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.: Bobby Knight (1940 - )
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The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.: John Berry, Flight of White Crows
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Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.: Italian Proverb
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.: Marilyn Ferguson
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Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977), In the film A Day at the Races
Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.: Eli Attie, House M.D., Dying Changes Everything, 2008
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Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Measure for Measure'
You always pass failure on the way to success.: Mickey Rooney (1920 - )
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Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up.: David Shore, House M.D., DNR, 2004
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.: Maurice Chevalier (1888 - 1972)
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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.: Ken Hakuta
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No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), 'The Strenuous Life,' 1900
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Without discipline, there's no life at all.: Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.: Paul Dudley White
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