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Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.: Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, 1600
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Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 9, 08-22-04
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.: Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
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Live forever or die in the attempt.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
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When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), The World as I See It.
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.: Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC - 27 BC)
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.: Nelson Mandela (1918 - ), 'A Long Walk to Freedom'
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I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Profiles in Courage, 1956
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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872
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Communism is like one big phone company.: Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966)
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Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.: Rebecca Johnson, in 'Vogue'
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Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.: Martha Stewart, in McCall's
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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