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If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.: Mel Brooks (1926 - )
There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.: Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.: John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven"
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The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
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Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.: Tina Turner (1938 - ), O Magazine, December 2003
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-23-05
After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted.: De la Lastra's Corollary
Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.: Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
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I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.: Woody Allen (1935 - )