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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
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Theophrastus (372 BC - 287 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
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John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
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Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
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Muhammad Ali (1942 - )
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
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Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.
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Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.
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Robert Orben
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
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Dick Cavett (1936 - )
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
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Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
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Doctor Who
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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Jean Kerr
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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