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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 12-19-2011
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.: William Bridges
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.': Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.: Wall Street Proverb
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In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey, 1818
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The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.: Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.: Rita Rudner
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
I am not young enough to know everything.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.: Candice Bergen (1946 - )
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Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.: Whoopi Goldberg
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.: Ivy Baker Priest, in Parade, 1958
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.: Peter De Vries
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