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At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.: Phillip C. McGraw, O Magazine, February 2003
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.: George S. Patton (1885 - 1945), (attributed)
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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.: Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), Reflections on America, 1958
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Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.: Glenn Doman
You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.: Tina Fey, Interview from Second City, 2008
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
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I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Incidentals (1907)
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My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.: Mary Todd Lincoln (1818 - 1882)
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.: Joey Adams
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.: Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
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Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.: Anonymous
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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