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If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.: Tina Fey, David Letterman Interview, 2011
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You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.: Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks, 07-10-2001
I can’t talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I’m likely to get. But, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.: Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954), Letter to Nickolas Muray, 12-18-1939
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Caltech commencement address, 1974
Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.: Corita Kent
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The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.: Hasidic Saying
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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.: Peter McArthur
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.: Garrison Keillor (1942 - ), in Salon.com
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act 4
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That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.: John Green (1977 - ), An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in.: Jennifer Neal, nakedjen, 06-26-09
Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.: Lester B. Pearson (1897 - 1972)
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Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.: Peter York
Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go. 1. Get up. 2. Find your house keys. 3. Put on some shoes. 4. Grab your iPod. 5. Walk out the front door.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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