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Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.: Vidal Sassoon
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.: G. E. Lessing (1729 - 1781)
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.: Emo Phillips, Neuropsychology: Clinical and Experimental Foundations
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.: Belgian Proverb
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A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.: Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988), 'Bendigo Shafter'
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
Complain to one who can help you.: Yugoslav Proverb
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.: Etty Hillesum
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal husband, 1893
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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
The highest result of education is tolerance.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), 'Optimism,' 1903
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Nostalgia is a side effect of dying.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)