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After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Russian Flu, 1990
I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.: Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912), declining to make a speech in 1908
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It's actually easy to tell if your house is haunted: It isn't. Grow up.: Jimmy Carr, Netflix special, 2019
What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.: Elizabeth Aston, The Second Mrs. Darcy, 2007
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Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.: Queen Juliana (1909 - 2004), of the Netherlands
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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.: Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.: Salma Hayek
Medication isn’t the only way to correct brain abnormalities in depression. Physical exercise also brings about profound changes in the brain—changes that rival those seen with the most potent antidepressant medications.: Stephen S. Ilardi PhD, The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs, 2009
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In heaven all the interesting people are missing.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.: Wayne Dyer
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.: Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.: William Gibson (1948 - )
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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.: Doris Lessing
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.: Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.: Michael Pritchard
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