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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.: Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
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In summer, the song sings itself.: William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963)
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The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.: Tina Turner (1938 - ), O Magazine, December 2003
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.: Charles Buxton
Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
When a problem can’t be solved, an attitude of acceptance makes room in your mind and heart for solutions to the problems that do need to be solved.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.: Edward De Bono
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Silence is more musical than any song.: Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Our Tribe, 1992
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It doesn't matter if you win or lose in the big, scary jungle of the real world. Winners and losers... Enemies and allies... We don't live in a comic book! This is the real deal.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self-Reliance", 1841
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.: Erma Bombeck (1927 - 1996)
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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.: John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
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Literature is news that stays news.: Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972), ABC of Reading (1934) chapter 8
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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