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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
Friendship is being there when someone's feeling low and not being afraid to kick them.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 11-04-10
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.: Nicholas Butler (1862 - 1947)
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2003
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'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.': Leslie Nielsen (1926 - ), as Lieutenant Frank Drebin, "Police Squad"
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.: William J. H. Boetcker
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Never answer a critic, unless he's right.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)
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Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.: Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.: Virginia Kelley
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.: M. F. K. Fisher
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.: Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.: King Charles I, of England
Memory feeds imagination.: Amy Tan (1952 - )
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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
There is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974), Goldwyn's Law of Contracts