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I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?': Jay Leno (1950 - )
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It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.: Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
How my achievements mock me!: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act IV
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.: Julia Child (1912 - 2004)
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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
Silence is the virtue of fools.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.: Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-30-12
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
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Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.: A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)