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Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.: Erma Bombeck (1927 - 1996)
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The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.: Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
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Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?: Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world.: Goldie Hawn (1945 - )
Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946), in Richard J. Anobile - "Godfrey Daniels"
Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.: Rita Rudner
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure.: Madonna (1958 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
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That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), The Arm of the Starfish, 1965
Only the mediocre are always at their best.: Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)