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There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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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Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.: Unknown
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
Walking is man's best medicine.: Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC)
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.: Henry Allen
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
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I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Anthem, 1946
Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.: Jack Handey (1949 - )
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.: Howard Dietz
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I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.: Joan Didion (1934 - )
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), letter to her brother, 1894
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.: Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937), 'Country Town Sayings,' 1911