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My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.: Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.: Fritz Kunkel
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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.: Sam Ewing
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Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.: Kurt Herbert Alder
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A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.: Grabel's Law
All people want is someone to listen.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003
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Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Notebook, 1935
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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.: Jeff Foxworthy
Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.: Caroline K. Simon
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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