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If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes.: Robert Redford (1937 - )
In a networked world, trust is the most important currency.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.: Doug Ferrari
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We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.: Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-30-12
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.: Marilyn Ferguson
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.: James Lane Allen
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Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), An Unfinished Woman, 1969
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.: Rebecca Johnson, in 'Vogue'
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The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.: Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.: Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.: Bible, New Testament, I Thessalonians
Hell is full of musical amateurs.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.: Ursula K. LeGuin
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.: Mother Jones
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976), An Autobiography, 1977
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Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.: Toni Cade Bambara