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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.: Henry C. Link
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If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.: Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-01-05
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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.: Wall Street Proverb
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.: Jef Mallett, Frazz, 04-04-07
Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.: Mickey Friedman
Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.: Seth Hoffman, House M.D., 2010
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Your primary goal should be to have a great life. You can still have a good day, enjoy your child, and ultimately find happiness, whether your ex is acting like a jerk or a responsible person. Your happiness is not dependent upon someone else.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
Ask advice only of your equals.: Danish Proverb
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First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.: Brendan Francis
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.: Clement Atlee
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You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.: Doris Egan, House M.D., House vs. God, 2006
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She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.: Kate Chopin
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.: John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
When you drink the water, remember the spring.: Chinese Proverb
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