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There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954
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Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like.: Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world.: Kate Clinton
When someone tells you something defies description, you can be pretty sure he's going to have a go at it anyway.: Clyde B. Aster
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.: Grace Murray Hopper (1906 - 1992)
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.: Doug Larson
Men have become the tools of their tools.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.: William Cecil Burleigh
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.: Robert Morley
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Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 11-09-07
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.: Harrison Ford (1942 - ), quoted by Garry Jenkins in 'Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero'
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cat's Cradle"
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
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What you risk reveals what you value.: Jeanette Winterson
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