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Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.: Christina Stead (1903 - 1983), House of All Nations (1938) "Credo"
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To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.: Michael Hanson
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If you have accomplished all that you planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.: Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
The biggest thing [Frida] brought into my life was this peacefulness. I still get passionate about things, but my passion is not so scattered and it's not needy. It's a lot more powerful because it comes with this groundedness and peacefulness. That it's about the process, not about the results.: Salma Hayek, Conversation with Salma Hayek, 2002
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The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'Cato'
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.: Meister Eckhart
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.: Rodney Yee
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Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.: Jules Feiffer (1929 - )
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Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.: Bible, Old Testament
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.: Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.: Dame Edna Everage (1934 - ), In a television interview with Joan Rivers
Hell is full of musical amateurs.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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It is the letter not sent that is often the most valuable.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010