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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Erica Jong
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
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Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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John Cleese (1939 - )
Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
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George Sand (1804 - 1876)
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
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Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684), 'The Cid,' 1636
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
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Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
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Denzel Washington (1954 - )
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
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Don Herold
Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
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Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962)
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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Sidney J. Harris
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
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Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
It was reassuring to know exactly where one stood. That one stood at the end of the line was not pertinent. At least there was a line in which to subsist.
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Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
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Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
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John Muir (1838 - 1914), Our National Parks, 1901
Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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