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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion, Act 2
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.: Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.: Sally Kempton
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993
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Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.: Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.: Saadi (1184 - 1291)
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.: Stella Terrill Mann
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.: John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)
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A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.: Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909)
Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.: Cher (1946 - )
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Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
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We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.: Marie Beyon Ray
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005