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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
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Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
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Catherine de Hueck Doherty
I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), "On Reading and Writing"
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
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Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), Secretary of Defense
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.
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Marion Wink, O Magazine, 2003
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
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Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
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Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
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Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
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Heidi Wills
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
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John Gaule
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
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Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.
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Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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Margaret Bonnano
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
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Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), letter to his godson, December 18, 1765
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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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