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It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.: Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
You learn a lot about people when you play games with them.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Pick Me! 02-11-09
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.: Michael Pritchard
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I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family.: Madeleine Albright (1937 - ), Making Sense of the Unimaginable, O Magazine
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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A mind too active is no mind at all.: Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.: Dan Quayle (1947 - ), to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89
When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it.: Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a Winner
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.: James Gordon, M.D.
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Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), "The Brothers Karamazov"
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
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You can't be angry with God and not believe in him at the same time.: Sara B. Cooper, House, Damned If You Do, 2004
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