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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, or the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit, but maybe the best any of us can do is not quit. Play the hand we've been given and accessorize the outfit we've got.: Allan Heinberg, Sex and the City, A 'Vogue' Idea, 2002
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.: Russell Baker (1925 - )
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.: Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.: Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
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Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or even incompetence.: Gordon Atkinson, Gospel Living in a Superficial World, 05-30-06
When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go.: Carol Burnett (1936 - )
Most people see themselves a certain way their entire lives. When they go through a massive change, such as losing weight, they have to learn to see themselves in a new way. It is one of the biggest struggles her members deal with on their journey.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.: Dorothea Dix (1802 - 1887)
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy.: Charlotte-Catherine
The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago. Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 14. Dying young is overrated., 08-22-04