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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005), O Magazine, September 2003
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A man that don't believe in destiny don't need to know what his destiny is.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 08-20-08
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The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.: Carl Becker
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.: Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), interview with Barbara Walters on ABC-TV, March 18, 1987
If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.: Elaine Gill
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No good deed goes unpunished.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
When a problem can’t be solved, an attitude of acceptance makes room in your mind and heart for solutions to the problems that do need to be solved.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977), In the film A Day at the Races
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.: Alice Kahn
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Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.: John Gotti
As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.: Hagar the Horrible
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774