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In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.: Sir Richard Steele
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While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects, bk. 11:11
I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.: James Carr, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
A smile is the shortest distance between two people.: Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.: Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994), From "Betting on the Muse"
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
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I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 9, 08-22-04
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.: Jean Kerr
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.: A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938 - 1989), President of Yale University
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago. Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 14. Dying young is overrated., 08-22-04
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.: Jeanne Moreau
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Play by the rules, but be ferocious.: Phil Knight, founder of Nike
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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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