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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
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Memory feeds imagination.: Amy Tan (1952 - )
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There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
Blame someone else and get on with your life.: Alan Woods
The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.: Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.: M. F. K. Fisher
I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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)
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher.com weblog, September 9, 2003
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.: Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.: Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.: Dan Rather (1931 - )
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The middle of the road is where the white line is-and that's the worst place to drive.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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