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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
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David McCullough (1933 - )
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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
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Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Walden", 1854
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With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
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Catherine de Hueck
I am at two with nature.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
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Dennis Miller
Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
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Conan O'Brien, Final Tonight Show Speech, 2010
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
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George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
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Fate is a force more powerful than gods, a fact they resent, since mortals are often given more leeway and may be able to navigate its current.
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow, 2019
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
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Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
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Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
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Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
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Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), "Of Human Bondage", 1915
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The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
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George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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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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