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There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.: Alice Thomas Ellis
Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun.: Robert Townsend
There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Man's main task is to give birth to himself.: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.: Shana Alexander
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[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.: Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.: C. Kent Wright
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.: Saki (1870 - 1916)
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Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
A man can do all things if he but wills them.: Leon Battista Alberti (1404 - 1472)
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.: Phyllis Diller
Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: 35 Minutes Away From Home, 02-29-12
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There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.: Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, March 10, 2008
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.: A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
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There is no Them, there is only Us. Some of Us think this or some of Us think that, but we're all Us.: Lisa Williams, Us and Them: A Blog Conversation Survival Guide, SXSW 2006
The palest ink is better than the best memory.: Chinese Proverb
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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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