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That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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Michael Pritchard
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
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Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.
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Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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Warren Buffett (1930 - )
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Art has never been made while thinking of art.
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Niko Stumpo, The Wooster Collective, December 2006
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
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Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
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Annie Lennox
If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.
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Unknown, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Consumer's Guide, 1897
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.
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Maxims of Ptahhotep, 3400 B.C.
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
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Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
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Bob Edwards
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
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George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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