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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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If you bow at all, bow low.: Chinese Proverb
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Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.: Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
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What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Men who never get carried away should be.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1
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Mistakes and disappointment make the sweet things in life that much sweeter.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
When you drink the water, remember the spring.: Chinese Proverb
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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.: Edward Chapin
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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.: Ausonius
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out (a) just say 'Thank you' and sign the thing, and (b) smile in the picture, because if you try to just half-smile you're going to look constipated.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - )
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