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Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.: David Letterman (1947 - )
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.: Jean Houston
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.: Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.: Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Art,' 1841
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We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.: Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
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Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
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We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.: Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 08-12-05
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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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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Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, The Five Worst Places to Vomit, 09-04-12
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Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.: Minna Thomas Antrim