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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.: Michael Pritchard
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.: Millicent Fenwick
We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.: William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966)
Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.: Robert Newton Peck, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die'
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.: Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
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There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.: Olin Miller
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941
It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.: M. F. K. Fisher
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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.: David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
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By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.: Grenville Kleiser
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It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.: Stuart's Law of Retroaction
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We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.: Etty Hillesum
Laughter is by definition healthy.: Doris Lessing
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)