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Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Arthur Dent in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.: Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948)
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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.: Alan Patrick Herbert
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If you don't know to the second when a drunk's gonna vomit on you, you don't survive as a strip club bouncer.: Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz, Home on the Strange, 10-02-07
If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything.: Peter Blake, House M.D., Safe, 2006
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.: Wally Lamb
Children are all foreigners.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
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You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.: Meredith Willson, The Music Man
It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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I grow more intense as I age.: Florida Scott-Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003
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What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.: Hansell B. Duckett
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I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.: Rita Mae Brown
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)