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No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Koichi Mano
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.': Roy Blount Jr.
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Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! and unfortunately, there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.: Joe Weinstein
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Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.: Mark Jenkins, "To Timbuktu"
The body is a sacred garment.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
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I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.: Alanis Morissette (1974 - ), Reader's Digest, March 2000
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.: Daniel H. Burnham (1846 - 1912)
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People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.: Mary Pettibone Poole
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.: Charles Luckman
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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.: Ken Kesey (1935 - )
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.: Mignon McLaughlin
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Life is a risk.: Diane Von Furstenberg
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There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.: Colette (1873 - 1954), 'Freedom,' 1908
Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?: Spike Milligan, from "The Goon Show"
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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