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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.: Anonymous, (wrongly attributed to the Koran)
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Reading is no substitute for action.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 07-26-08
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
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That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.: Paul Tournier
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843
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It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism"
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.: Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
Neither should you fret too much about 'writer%uFFFDs block'. If you%uFFFDre looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer%uFFFDs block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you SHOULD feel the need to say something.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
The easiest thing in the world to be is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.: Leo Buscaglia (1925 - 1998)
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"
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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661), 'The Holy State and the Profane State,' 1642
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.: Larry Gelbart
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Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Journals, 1839
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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