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I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.: April Foiles
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Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, I Heart NY, 2002
[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.: Marge Piercy
I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.: Bob Edwards
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That's the thing about needs. Sometimes, when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, The Good Fight, 2002
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.: John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.: Unknown
I am not young enough to know everything.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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These days an income is something you can't live without--or within.: Tom Wilson, "Ziggy" (comic)
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.: Thomas Guthrie
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.: Segal's Law
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.: Marvin Minsky
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When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love it.: Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green And Other Things to Consider
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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