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Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004), Dear Me (1977)
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.: James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
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Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases.: American Heart Association Cookbook
Sometimes ya gotta do stuff 'cause it's expected of ya, not 'cause of anything else.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 07-09-08
In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.: R. A. Butler (1902 - 1982)
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If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.: Dorothy Gilman, A New Kind of Country, 1978
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?: Frank Scully
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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
Sanity is a madness put to good use.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), The Exploration of Space, 1951
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.: Henry J. Tillman
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Our creations MUST be shared to be art, and the easiest way to share our art is to sell it.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: 35 Minutes from Home, 03-07-12
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It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.: French Proverb
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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
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Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.: Harriet Lerner
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.: Jeff Valdez
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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994
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There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010