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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.: Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004
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You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929
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There is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.: Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977)
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Live well. It is the greatest revenge.: The Talmud
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I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.: A. Whitney Brown
To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.: Karl von Bonstetten
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Different and new is just the same old if you keep doing it over and over.: Kyran Pittman, Good Housekeeping, June 2011
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.: Pearl Bailey (1918 - 1990)
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We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Mustard's no good without roast beef.: Chico Marx (1891 - 1961)
If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Borders of Infinity", 1989
Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.: George Meany
Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 5, 08-22-04
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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