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Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 08-23-11
Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.: Marilyn Manson (1969 - ), I Don't Like The Media But The Media Likes Me - Columbine statement
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.: Eckhart Tolle
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter to Benjamin Rush, 18 April 1808
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A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.: Colette (1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911), The Mikado, 1885
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.: John Patrick
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.: Christopher Reeve
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, August 2004
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Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.: Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Cocooned inside our private dramas we often don’t realize life is rolling by us like it should.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 08-29-06
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
So little time and so little to do.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.: Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889 - 1967)
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