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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
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Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.
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Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), The Arm of the Starfish, 1965
There must be more to life than having everything.: Maurice Sendak (1928 - )
For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.: Gloria Borger
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
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I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.: Joe Walsh
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.: Stuart's Law of Retroaction
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), speech in Washington D.C., 1865
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Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.: Vaclav Havel (1936 - )
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.: Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)
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If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.: Sidney J. Harris
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