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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.: Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
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If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.: Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927), "Three Men in a Boat", 1889
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.: R. D. Laing
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.: Stanley Kunitz, O Magazine, September 2003
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), 'Ten Mills,' A Further Range, 1936
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I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.: Bill Hoest
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!: Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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Give all to love; obey thy heart.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
We are who people think we are.: David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.: Reverend Edward A. Malloy, Monk's Reflections
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For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.: Eric Ambler
You have to want weight-loss success so badly that no mountain, river, or ocean could keep you from reaching your goals. If you have that drive, passion, and commitment, there is no way you won’t get there.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)