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Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself.: Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Northern Hospitality, 1994
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.: Jim Horning
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The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.: Walter Goodman
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For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
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To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
It is the caring and sharing that count—love is not prevented by the things and the time that you haven’t shared.: Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), David Copperfield, 1849
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I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Keep cool and you command everybody.: Louis de Saint-Just (1767 - 1794)
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'utile et de l'honnete,' 1580-88
The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.: Ilya Prigogine (1917 - )
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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