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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
Guilt is a rope that wears thin.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God"
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.: Hugh White (1773 - 1840)
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I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.: Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933)
Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.: Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.: Herman Wouk (1915 - )
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I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.: Alvin Toffler
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Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.: W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963), last message to the world, 1957
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Happy Death
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.: Elie Wiesel (1928 - )
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.: Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.': Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
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My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.: Ellen DeGeneres
The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.: Flip Wilson (1933 - 1998)
Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes"
Technical term is narcissism. You can't believe everything is your fault unless you also believe you're all powerful.: Matt Witten, House M.D., Humpty Dumpty, 2005