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In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.: Wendell Berry
I've decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 06-04-08
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There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.: Martin Gardner (1914 - ), "The Mathematical Magic Show"
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.: William Hutton
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes"
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.: Olive Schreiner (1855 - 1920)
You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.: P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest
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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.: Dorothy Day (1897 - 1980), The Long Loneliness, 1952
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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.: Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), Good Housekeeping, June 2011
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.: Desmond Morris
Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005