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Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.: Bill Kelly, Blast from the Past, 1999
It is better to wear out than to rust out.: Bishop Richard Cumberland
One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others.: Edward L. Flom
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.: Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it.: Anonymous, O Magazine, The Shy Girl's Guide to Sex, February 2003
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Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.: William H. Sheldon
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.: Vincent Canby, on the Academy Awards
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Interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do and nobody calls her disabled.: Aimee Mullins, Ted Conference, How My Legs Give Me Super-Powers, February 2009
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 15, 08-22-04
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.: Fritz Kunkel
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You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.: Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.: Minna Thomas Antrim
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.: Hobart Brown
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.: Adrian Mitchell
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My friends are my estate.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)