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There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them.: Laura Preble, The Queen Geek Social Club, 2006
There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.: Floyd Dell
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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.: Jewish Proverb
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Interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do and nobody calls her disabled.: Aimee Mullins, Ted Conference, How My Legs Give Me Super-Powers, February 2009
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.: Brendan Gill
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Feed a fever, starve a cold. Lightly sup with rickets.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
College isn't the place to go for ideas.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.: Martin Mull (1943 - )
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
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When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
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...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people don’t see things in the same way that I do.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.: John Andrew Holmes
If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727), Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.: Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart, 1989
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At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.: Emo Phillips