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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, sc. 1
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Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.: Eric Gibson, in The Wall Street Journal
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.: Stephen King (1947 - ), "Hearts in Atlantis"
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A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.: Willis Player
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How soon was it that the dead are brought to deity in the eyes of those who in life found them little regard.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
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We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.: John M. Ford
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
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I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.: Rita Rudner
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.: Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), An Enemy of the People, 1882
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.: Jacques Delille
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Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.: Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), quoted in Observer, March 29 1981
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Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 11-07-05
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In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.: Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
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Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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