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Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self-Reliance", 1841
Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air.: Eric Wald, View From The Top, 2003
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.: Unknown
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Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
I don't really trust a sane person.: Lyle Alzado (1949 - 1992)
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Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993
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Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.: H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925), King Solomon's Mines
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?: Tom Hanks (1956 - ), Esquire, June 2006
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.: David Letterman (1947 - )