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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
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Henry Morgan
Men are born to succeed, not fail.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Better to look weak and be strong than to look strong and be weak.
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Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: 35 Minutes from Home, 05-19-12
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
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Robert Byrne
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Human pain does not let go of its grip at one point in time. Rather, it works its way out of our consciousness over time. There is a season of sadness. A season of anger. A season of tranquility. A season of hope.
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Robert Veninga
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
Technical term is narcissism. You can't believe everything is your fault unless you also believe you're all powerful.
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Matt Witten, House M.D., Humpty Dumpty, 2005
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
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Bill Cosby (1937 - )
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Tweek Vs. Craig, 1999
The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.
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Glenn Doman
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics,' 325 B.C.
What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.
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Ellen DeGeneres, The Ellen Show, 05-17-13
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
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Katherine Anne Porter (1894 - 1980)
Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
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Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
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Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
The only paradise is paradise lost.
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Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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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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