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Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.: Margaret Lee Runbeck
Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.: Thich Nhat Hanh
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Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.: John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.: Franklin P. Jones
Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.: Tom Blair
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You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.: Bill Cosby (1937 - )
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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, The Five Worst Places to Vomit, 09-04-12
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
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My computer beat me at chess... so I beat it at kickboxing.: Demetri Martin
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Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.: Unknown
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.: Arnold Bennett
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The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.: Scott Westerfeld, Peeps, 2005
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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.: Nikola Tesla (1857 - 1943), Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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