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He talked with more claret than clarity.
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Susan Ertz
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
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Muhammad Ali (1942 - )
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Malheureux'
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
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George Washington (1732 - 1799)
'Where and how can I make this meal better for me?' I asked myself that question before every meal—especially in the beginning.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
I wanna hang a map of the world in my house. Then I'm gonna put pins into all the locations that I've traveled to. But first, I'm gonna have to travel to the top two corners of the map so it won't fall down.
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Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
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Tom Blair
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
I think there's a god and I know it's not me.
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Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), Good Housekeeping, June 2011
Maybe it was only a second of your time, but you need to treasure life, every second.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
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Steven Wright (1955 - )
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.
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Wayne Dyer
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.
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Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973), address to the nation, November 28, 1963
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'God and the Bible,' 1875
If you can’t take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.
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Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
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Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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