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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.: Robert Service (1874 - 1958)
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.: Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603), in Francis Bacon, Apophthegms, 1625
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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.: Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.: William Hutton
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If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.: Ed Gardner
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Just as I had to go through a transition period, I guess [my friends and family] did, too.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
I shall not pretend that I do not prefer to have people adore me rather than revile me, but I have always found that it was far easier for me to suffer the disapprobation of others than to amend my behaviour in order to find favour with them.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), (attributed)
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.: Paul Tournier
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