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When I see somebody 'suffering for their art', it%uFFFDs usually a case of them not knowing where that red line is, not knowing where the sovereignty lies.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 15, 08-22-04
Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.: Saki (1870 - 1916)
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.: Marquis de Condorcet (1743 - 1794)
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
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To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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A way to a man's heart is through his stomach, that shit true as gold. You put some love in your food and a fool can taste it.: Raelle Tucker, True Blood, Cold Ground, 2008
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...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
In the end, everything is a gag.: Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.: Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
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Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?: Unknown, Dan Fielding in "Night Court"
Nothing you can't spell will ever work.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Travels in Alaska by John Muir, 1915, chapter 1
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Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 'Rhesus'
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)