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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Gore Vidal (1925 - )
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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George Washington (1732 - 1799)
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
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Doug Larson
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
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I. F. Stone (1907 - 1989)
Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.
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Tina Fey, Vogue Interview, 2010
There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.
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Virginia Kelley
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
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Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979)
Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
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The Dhammapada
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)
How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.
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Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
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Ann Richards
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.
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Phillip C. McGraw, O Magazine, February 2003
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
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H. Mathews
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
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Evenius
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
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Dave Barry (1947 - )
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
Anything you fully do is an alone journey.
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Natalie Goldberg
Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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W.E.B. Du Bois, Speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, August 1906
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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