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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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I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.: Paul Johnson
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.: Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.: Richard Bach
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.: J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.: Baltasar Gracian
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I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.: Candice Bergen (1946 - )
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I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Cat Orgy, 1999
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Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.: King Charles I, of England
Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.: Glenn Doman
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who don’t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if you’re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is what’s important.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877
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