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If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite.: Liz Friedman, House M.D., Hunting, 2005
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.: Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.: Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885)
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The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.: Glenn Doman
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
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Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up.: David Shore, House M.D., DNR, 2004
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.: Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
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Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.: Barbara Schapiro, O Magazine, May 2003
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Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.: Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988)
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
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No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
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Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.: Jane E. Brody
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.: Frank Tibolt
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What's the use of worrying? It never was worthwhile.: George Asaf
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The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.: Alan Alda (1936 - )