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This is like deja vu all over again.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
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The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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There’s a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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I don't want to talk as much. It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my curiosty, I want to go there, be a part of whatever it is that's either pushing me or pulling me toward it. That desire for experience has made me very rich in life experience.: Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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I am no more humble than my talents require.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.: David Shore, House M.D., One Day, One Room, 2007
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.: Roseanne Barr
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.: Lucille S. Harper
You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a woman’s name and claim to love her.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.: Paul Graham, September 2004
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A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.: Philip Gold, Doctors: Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes 2005 Calendar
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.: Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
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