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Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.: Minna Thomas Antrim
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.: Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.: Buck Henry
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.: Frank Moore Colby
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There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
The only cure for grief is action.: George Henry Lewes
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It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.: Pema Chodron
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.: Dick Gregory (1932 - )
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CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Our Tribe, 1992
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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.: Nancy Spain