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If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.: Pierre Charron
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Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.: Adrian Mitchell
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The best things carried to excess are wrong.: Charles Churchill
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.: Joan Rivers (1935 - )
We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.: Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.: Bruce Barton
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The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.: Foster's Law
First things first, but not necessarily in that order.: Doctor Who
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778), letter to Le Comte d'Argental, August 28, 1760
I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.: James Lileks, The Bleat web log, September 15, 2003
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Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Spring Break, 1991
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Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811