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Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.: Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
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When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
Slap a mask on a drunk and you're going to have trouble. It's like having a live reenactment of anonymous forum comments.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Masquerade, 09-09-13
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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Casting Call, 10-21-13
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...: Trieu Thi Trinh
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.: Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 07-07-06
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.: Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958)
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.: Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, 1854
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
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There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.: Sean O'Faolain (1900 - 1991)
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When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.: Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966)
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)