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You never lose a dream. It just incubates as a hobby.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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'Where and how can I make this meal better for me?' I asked myself that question before every meal—especially in the beginning.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.: George F. Will (1941 - ), Statecraft as Soulcraft
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.: Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.: Robert Byrne
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.: Spanish Proverb
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Mother Night
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!: Bob Newhart (1929 - )
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Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7
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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.: Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
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Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.: Jewish Proverb
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.: Captain J. A. Hadfield
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People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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