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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
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I felt like poisoning a monk.
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Umberto Eco (1932 - ), on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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Life is just a bowl of pits.
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Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
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The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
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Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
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There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try.
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Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway.
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Clyde B. Aster
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
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Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
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Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
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Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
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A. Lawrence Lowell (1856 - 1943)
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.
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The Mishnah
Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off.
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Ellen DeGeneres
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
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Paxton Hood
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
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Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - )
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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Marian Evans
Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.
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Norman Ford
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act II
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
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