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It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.: Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
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If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.: Latin Proverb
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The point is that no matter what your feelings are, your children will be better off if you make them your central focus and work diligently at keeping the parenting relationship civil and cooperative.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough For Love
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.: Nancy Reagan (1921 - )
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
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Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.: Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
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I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.: Susan Glaspell, The Visioning, 1911
In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 08-23-05