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Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.: Madame de Tencin
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Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.: Doris Egan, House M.D., The Right Stuff, 2007
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If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.: Bill Vaughan
My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.: Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
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The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.: Jeff Foxworthy
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
Evil is obvious only in retrospect.: Gloria Steinem (1934 - ), Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, 1983
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870
Voices that loud are always meant to bully. Do not be bullied. Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and, yes your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.: George W. Bush (1946 - ), Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13, 2004
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.: Cullen Hightower
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
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), in Observer, April 13, 1958
It is the letter not sent that is often the most valuable.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
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.: Ellen DeGeneres, The Ellen Show, 05-17-13
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People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.: Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Russian Flu, 1990