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Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.: Emo Phillips
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Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.
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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Tempest, Act II scene 1
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown
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To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.: C. Kent Wright
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.: Julia Child (1912 - 2004)
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If you don't know to the second when a drunk's gonna vomit on you, you don't survive as a strip club bouncer.: Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz, Home on the Strange, 10-02-07
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of the Open Road
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.: Henry James (1843 - 1916), from his essay about the rules of writing
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Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
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Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.: Tommy Cooper
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
Never spend your money before you have it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
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Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
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