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I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.: John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
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I love stuff as much as the next guy, but I’ve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of acquiring it, the price of having it is freedom.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 06-23-09
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An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.: James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
While there's life, there's hope.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Ad Atticum
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If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.: Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.: Carlos Castaneda
This life gets bitterly cold. Sometimes you just need to cling to the person that you can claw your way out of the dark with.: Chris Dingess, Being Human, Wouldn't It Be Nice (If We Were Human), 2011
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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I am not young enough to know everything.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.: Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.: National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
One should count each day a separate life.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you shall learn nothing.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04
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Nothing ever goes away.: Barry Commoner (1917 - )
Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a dog.: Caroline K. Simon
I never know how much of what I say is true.: Bette Midler (1945 - )