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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.: David Letterman (1947 - )
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Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.: Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
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Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.: Stuart Stevens, Northern Exposure, Brains, Know-How, and Native Intelligence, 1990
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.: Dale Carnegie
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Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.: George Bush (1924 - ), "All the Best, George Bush"
Hope is necessary in every condition.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.: Jean Houston
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Impact of Science on Society (1952) ch. 1
Did I ever tell you about a nasty habit that flight attendants pick up on the job? We learn to always keep smiling, even when we're out of Bloody Mary Mix.: Eric Wald, View From The Top, 2003
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 5, 2003
[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.: Thomas Dekker (1572 - 1632)
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You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family.": Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.: Chuck Reid
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.: John J. Plomp
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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)