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The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.: Elmer Davis (1890 - 1958)
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.: Maria Schell
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.: Richard Rybolt
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The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside...: Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), Movie Reveiw of "American Beauty"
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.: C. V. R. Thompson
The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Cat Orgy, 1999
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Parents are never as bad as kids think they are.: Matt Witten, House M.D., Cursed, 2004
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Personally I have struggled massively with the dilemma of talent vs desire. Choosing desire may not always be the easiest thing to do. It may seem a waste to leave those natural talents behind and strike out in a new direction. But at least you’ll feel alive.: Meri Williams, Talent vs Desire, 05-29-06
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.: Ice T, The Ice Opinion
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.: Joan Rivers (1935 - )
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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.: Mark Russell (1932 - )
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.: Robert Byrne
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.: Simone de Beauvoir