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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.: Billy Wilder (1906 - 2002)
Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.: Jewish Proverb
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Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!: Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan, Big Bang Theory, The Agreement Dissection, 2011
He who will not economize will have to agonize.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Discretion is not the better part of biography.: Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932), in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.: Arthur Brisbane
Sometimes being a good friend means being harsh.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
If you have accomplished all that you planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.: Edward Everett Hale (1822 - 1909)
I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid.: Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Use soft words and hard arguments.: English Proverb
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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.: Joan Baez (1941 - )
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.: A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.: Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
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Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891