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No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.: Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.: Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989), 1958
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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A Hospital is no place to be sick.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.: Totie Fields
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.: John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.: A. L. Kitselman
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
There's no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.: Moliere (1622 - 1673)
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.: Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939)
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The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.: Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
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There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
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Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.: The Belzer Rabbi
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.: Freya Madeline Stark