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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.: Bruce Grocott (1940 - )
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.: Sidney J. Harris
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.: Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
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I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005), Mitch All Together
A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.: George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)
The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.: Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), Tragedy and the Common Man
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.: Dick Werthimer
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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.: Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.: Peter De Vries
One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.: Emil Zatopek
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.: Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone"
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If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.: Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine
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The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.: John Russell
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